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James Cook’s discovery of Newfoundland

Rough draft of James Cook history fair by Isaac

1. James Cook was a sea Capitan. No cool was much more then that he was an English explorer, navigator, and cartographer. He was associated in this discover because he led his crew to this place. James was born 7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728
Marton, Yorkshire, England and in that time he completed three great adventures. He died 14 February 1779 at the age of 50 on his last voyage in Hawaii. He was hit in the head by an object and then was stabbed and bled to death

2. In 1766, the Royal Society hired Cook to travel to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the transit of Venus across the Sun. He sailed from England in 1768, rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific to arrive at Tahiti on 13 April 1769, where the observations were to be made. However, the results of the observations were not as conclusive or accurate as had been hoped. Cook later mapped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only some minor errors. After that James sailed west, reaching the southeastern coast of the Australian continent on 19 April 1770 and in doing so his expedition became the first recorded Europeans to have encountered its eastern coastline. On 23 April James recorded direct observation of indigenous Australians at Brush Island near Bawley Point, noting in his journal "…and were so near the Shore as to distinguish several people upon the Sea beach they appeared to be of a very dark or black Color but whether this was the real color of their skins or the Clothes they might have on I know not." On 29 April Cook and James’s crew made their first landfall on the mainland of the continent at a place now known as the Kurnell Peninsula, which he named Botany Bay after the unique specimens retrieved by the botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. It is here that James Cook made first contact with an Aboriginal tribe known as the Gweagal. After his departure from Botany Bay he continued northwards, and a mishap occurred when Endeavor ran aground on a shoal of the Great Barrier Reef, on 11 June. The ship was badly damaged and his voyage was delayed almost seven weeks while repairs were carried out on the beach (near the docks of modern Cook town, at the mouth of the Endeavor River). Once repairs were complete the voyage continued, sailing through Torres Strait and on 22 August he landed on Possession Island, where he claimed the entire coastline he had just explored as British territory. Cook then returned to England arriving on 12 July 1771.

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