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Captain Cook Discovered Australia

captain cook

Captain James Cook FRS RN (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy.
Cook: English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
“Captain Cook” is the first episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, the fourth series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder.

discovered

ascertained: discovered or determined by scientific observation; “variation in the ascertained flux depends on a number of factors”; “the discovered behavior norms”; “discovered differences in achievement”; “no explanation for the observed phenomena”
Be the first to find or observe (a place, substance, or scientific phenomenon)
Find (something or someone) unexpectedly or in the course of a search
Become aware of (a fact or situation)
(discovery) a productive insight
(discovery) the act of discovering something

australia

An island country and continent in the southern hemisphere, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, a member state of the Commonwealth of Nations; pop. 19,900,000; capital, Canberra; official language, English
the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
(australian) of or relating to or characteristic of Australia or its inhabitants or its languages; “Australian deserts”; “Australian aborigines”

COOKTOWN TRIP – ENDEAVOUR REEF WHERE LIEUTENANT JAMES COOK CAME TO GRIEF – & GRASSY HILL, COOKTOWN

Lieutenant James Cook climbed Grassy Hill to look out to the mouth of the Endeavour River to find a passage through the Great Barrier Reef.

I am suspending my other uploads to do this one. I am posting about 15 photo because this Sunday (11 th November) the ABC TV continues the Documentary on Captain Cook and it will begin this episode with his crashing on Endeavour Reef near Cooktown. Very recently I visited Cooktown and the Coloured sands (10 days ago) and want to share these photos on the Cook saga because it will fit nicely with the Documentary this Sunday evening.

For non-Australians, The east coast of Australia was discovered and mapped by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 for the British authorities, and that led to British settlement in January 1788 when the United States colonies refused any more convicts so Britain sent them to Australia (New Holland) instead. Cook’s ship carried about 100 men and was called the Endeavour, and James Cook was perhaps the most capable and expert captains the British navy ever had.

**** There is a lighthouse on Grassy Hill built in the 1880s I think. It is quite a quaint one. Lighthouses are not relevant these days because of GPS and satellite navigation.

HMS Endeavour | dust storm

this is the HMS Endeavour, also known as the HM Bark Endeavour, it’s a replica of the original and the ship that Captain James Cook discovered Australia in. We wouldn’t be here today in this great country if it wasn’t for this ship.

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