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Captain James Cook

            During the years of the Enlightenment Age, new and wounderous advances were being made. Not only on land but explorers were venturing out into the sea. Captain James Cook was one of these men who went on many expeditions around the world.
             Between 1720 and 1790 was a period known as the Age of Enlightenment. The Age of Enlightenment was a major influence in history. This period was filled with new ideas, thinkers. Many of which dealt with science and art, but also expedition. Paintings were painted to express feelings of this time of reform and revolution. There were inventors making helpful inventions. The ideas of the time period spread thought Europe like a desease does to a school. Starting in France and going to the United States of America, with the help of explorers.
             Expeditions was important in this time frame. Cook was the best known navigator map maker and scientist of the time. Throughout his youth he dreamed of going out to sea and sailing ships. He wanted to do something different and helpful. Before becoming a great navigator and everything else had become to be he work on a ship that brought coal up and down the east coast. From there he became a captain who sailed to many unkknown places and charted them. Cook was the first European to reach and chart the east coast of Australia and the islands of New Zealand, Hawaii and Tahiti. He made a path for many who followed him, and contributed map and charts of the seas he had sailed.
             Cook voyaged all over the world. He mapped out where ever he went. His trips to New Zealand, Tahiti and Hawaii were probably his most memorable trips because was the first to go and chat this unknown territory. .
            


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1. James Cook & The Exploration Of The South Pacific

To many Londoners, the selection of Lieutenant James Cook was as surprising as the Admiralty's choice of the Endeavor. ... Compared to Commodore Byron or Captain Samuel Wallis, Cook sprang from the lower levels of British society. ... Like the Endeavor, James Cook possessed the exact qualities the Admiralty had wanted. ... However, life as a coal captain did not interest the twenty-seven year old James Cook. ... It was obvious to the Eagle's captain, Joseph Hamar, that Cook was no ordinary recruit. ...

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2. Australia Cultural issues

"Terra Nullus" or "empty land", described Australia through the eyes of Captain James Cook and the Endeavour when they first anchored in Botany Bay in 1770. ... When Captain James Cook's Endeavour anchored in Botany Bay in 1770, the health of aborigines and Torres Straight Islanders was almost certainly better than that of the crew. ...

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3. Captain James Cook

James Cook was born on the 27th of October 1928, and was one of seven children. His father was a poor farm labourer, and so was James until getting a job at a Grocer's assistant. ... At the age of 18, James Cook found employment on the Baltic Sea in a Collier(ships for coal transport). ... Cook was given command of his own ship to chart the St. ... Cook had claimed the land on 12th of June, 1771. ...

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4. Explorers of Canada

Explorers James Cook- Four years later Cook took two British ships onto the west coast. ... Cook kept traveling north to the Arctic Ocean but big icebergs blocked out the expedition, but Cook still charted the coast from his ship. He was the first sea captain to prevent the spread of scurvy a water disease aboard his ships by serving fruit and sauerkraut. ... Hawaiian natives stabbed Cook to death when he landed in Hawaii. George Vancouver- After Cooks expedition it led to the arrival of many explorers. ...

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5. Aborigines

The Aboriginal people had never seen white people until Captain James Cook. ... What was the misunderstanding between Captain Arthur Philip and the old Aborigine man? The misunderstanding was not intentional by Captain Arthur Phillip it was just that the aborigines were very sharing people and when the Old Man went to borrow his shovel he wasn't going to share. ... The Old man was very offended by this and Captain Phillip was very careful not to offend the aborigines but Aborigines and the Settlers cultures were so different! ... They killed some white people and even injured the Captain...

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6. Captain Arthur Phillip

The only information about Australia was the information on New South Wales from Captain James Cook's voyage in 1770. ... Officers abused power, convicts ran rampant and Captain Arthur Phillip struggled to maintain order. ... Theft of food and alcohol was very common place and floggings of up to 500 lashes and even the hanging on 6 march of James Barett failed to check the evil. ... Captain Arthur Phillip Captain Arthur Phillip was born in 1738 in London.. ... During the American War of Independence in 1778, he returned to the English navy and became a post captain in 1781. ...

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7. Surfing

The ancient ocean loving pastime of he"enalu is the only Polinesian pastime to dig deep and flourish wherever it has been introduced. Today it is practiced on either coast of the United States, Australia, Brazil, France, Portugal, South Africa, Japan, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Hawaii and even in the fr...

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8. Globalization - The End of Geography

In 1778, a Captain James Cook, sailed the Resolution into Waimea Bay Hawaii. The effect of this journey was to radically restructure the space/time vectors connecting Hawaii with London. This rift in global space/time instantly conceptualized a dramatic shift in "positional, opening a wormhole in so...

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9. Hawaii

James Michener tells us of another god in his book, Hawaii. ... In Hawaii, the people adopted new gods that fit the appropriate situation, always looking for the best outcome (James Michener's Hawaii). ... In 1778, Captain Cook became the first European to reach Hawaii. ... Cook was respected and treated hospitably by the natives, but he eventually outstayed his welcome. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

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