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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

... Empire, to await the arrival of her commander. To many Londoners, the selection of Lieutenant James Cook was as surprising as the Admiralty's choice of the Endeavor. At the age of thirty-nine, Cook was virtually nonexistent to his countrymen. Compared to Commodore Byron or Captain Samuel Wallis, Cook sprang from the lower levels of British society. He was also haphazardly educated and was not ... Brothers. By 1755, having studied astronomy and mathematics in his spare time and risen to the rank of first-mate, Cook was offered command of one of the coal firm's new ships. However, life as...

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2. 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. Cook then began to work as an apprentice for a firm of ship owners. At the age of 18, James Cook found employment on the Baltic Sea in a Collier(ships for coal transport). In 1755 Cook joined the Royal, Navy of England and was aboard as an able seamen on the "Eagle". Within only 4 years, he had become a master, and spent years charting the North Atlantic coastal waters of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and the Saint Lawren...

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3. Captain Arthur Phillip

... of 9. The ship was sent to the unknown continent of Australia. The only information about Australia was the information on New South Wales from Captain James Cook's voyage in 1770. From this information it was decided that the first settlement would be at Botany Bay, and later a second settlement would ... the colonial power The first few weeks of life in the Sydney Cove colony were completely chaotic. Officers abused power, convicts ran rampant and Captain Arthur Phillip struggled to maintain order. Gradually, his power was restored, and things began to return to normal however the col...

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4. The Antarctic Continent

... land . The voyages between 1578 to 1771 did not result in the great discovery , but succeeded in discovering Tasmania , New Zealand , Bouvet & Kerguelen islands in the Southern ocean. In 1768, Captain James Cook of Great Britain undertook a determined search for the big continent & found Australia, however he continued his search further south and in 1972, he set off on a record expedition in two ... 1776, during another voyage to Antarctica with the aim of finding a northwest passage joining the Pacific with the Atlantic , he was killed by the natives in Hawaii . The voyage of Captain ...

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5. 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. With the Endeavour more or less a part of Britain, brought with it not only British men, women and ... late as 1961(Long 1970) the government was successfully succeeding in its attempts to conform the aboriginals to the western way and further alienating them from their cultural heritage. When Captain James Cook's Endeavour anchored in Botany Bay in 1770, the health of aborigines and Torres Straight Islanders was almost certainly better ...

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6. Comparing Aboriginals to Maoris

... their land, culture, and beliefs to survive. They lived for their land and past ancestors. . The first fleet arrived in Australia in 1788. The land had been claimed by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 and was known as "terra nullius"meaning empty land. This was not because the British people did not see the Aboriginals, but because the Aboriginals did not build ... by the Dutch navigator Abel Janszoon. He made a sole attempt to land at Golden Bay near Nelson but was repelled by Maoris. He made no further attempt. The arrival of Captain James Cook in 1769 saw the interest of the British. He...

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7. Robinson Crusoe as the Prototype British Colonist

... important literary piece of the Enlightenment period, as it expresses the Enlightenment themes of individualism, exploration and the rejection of authority. The poet James Joyce has described the character of Robinson Crusoe as the "true prototype of the British colonist"1, and Robinson Crusoe certainly shares many ... also be said to have shown an unconscious cruelty towards Xury, his young Moor companion, when he agrees to sell him to the Portuguese Captain, in effect handing over his liberty11. Crusoe only becomes regretful of the sale of Xury when he realises how useful Xury's labour...

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8. Explorers of Canada

Explorers James Cook- Four years later Cook took two British ships onto the west coast. He was the first European to have landed on Vancouver Island at Nootka Sound. Within a few years British traders came by sea and developed a fur trade with coastal Indians. 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. He ... first to carry a chronometer, which is a compass thus helped...

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9. Aborigines

... day, with each tribe being responsible for the maintenance of a different aspect. 6. What did the Aborigines think of the white settlers? The Aboriginal people had never seen white people until Captain James Cook. When he landed in Botany Bay, they were shocked by their colour and strange appearance of the white people. When the Aborigines first saw the white people they thought they ... . Therefore he slapped the old man leaving him unbelieved that they were friends and the white man still would not share. The Old man was very offended by this and Captain Phillip was very careful not to...

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