Captain James Cook Research Paper

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The year of 1768 was the year Captain James Cook was chosen to sail on the Endeavour. He was chosen by a group of scientists called the Royal Society Of London. They wanted to observe the passing of the planet Venus across the sun. In August 1768, James Cook and his crew of 94 men had sailed southwest across the Atlantic Ocean, after he did that he went around South America at Cape Horn after that Cook had sailed up the Pacific Ocean. By then it was April 12, 1769 when they had officially arrived at Tahiti. James had said in one of his journals that one day the natives of the island came out on canoes and gifted them with cocoanuts and fruits much like a large apple but couldn’t eat it half so well. Once James Cook and his crew had landed on …show more content…
They landed the ship right away when this had happened, the nearest land was Australia so the docked the boat there and began to fix the boat. It took six weeks to repair. If Cook and his crew did not dock the ship this voyage would have ended in a catastrophe. After successfully fixing the Endeavour they head for England, they had headed along the Northern Coast of Australia. This route took him across the Indian Ocean and around the Southern tip of Africa, and up the West African Coast. James Cook and his crew had officially arrived in England on July of 1771. James Cook had officially completed his very first voyage. With his arrival reaching England, he brought home many new information such as charts of many unexplored land, many reports on the customs and languages of the people the people on board and Cook himself saw, more than a thousand kinds of dried plants found on the islands that he landed on, five hundred fish preserved by them being drenched in alcohol, five hundred new bird skins that have been found, and last but not least thirteen thousand drawings of the native people that lived on these islands and places that Cook and his crew encountered. With this voyage Cook had gone around the whole entire bottom part of the content going from England to Australia and then back as
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