James Cook
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title:
James Cook
text:
Captain James Cook was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as
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British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook
date created:
2001-03-28T18:04:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T07:34:41Z
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