James Cook
James Cook (1728-1779)
is an
explorer and a British navigator, who explored the Pacific Ocean and his
islands.
In 1768, James Cook,
then lieutenant, undertake its first voyage towards the Southern Pacific. It
goes until to New Zealand, from which it carries out very precise coastal charts.
He is then the first European to be unloaded on
the Eastern coast of Australia.
He regains England in 1771.
Left for the one second
exploration in 1772, it skirts the ice-barrier, in the south of Australia; it
is the first to cross the polar circle the Antarctic.
At the time of his
third and last voyage, in 1776, James Cook discovers some of the islands
Sandwich (today the archipelago of Hawaii)
then goes up to the Bering Strait, where it is blocked by the ices. Obliged to
make halt in Hawaii, it is stabbed during a confrontation with the inhabitants
of the island.
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