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Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me" |
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2023-11-08 |
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On his third voyage in 1778, he reached the Hawaiian Islands & named them the Sandwich Islands, after one of his patrons |
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2022-09-16 |
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This captain discovered the Great Barrier Reef the hard way, by running the Endeavour onto it |
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2001-01-04 |
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In 1770 this British sea captain nearly wrecked the Endeavour on the Great Barrier Reef |
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1997-12-01 |
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In 1769 he set out on the Endeavour to find out if the Great South Land existed |
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1996-06-06 |
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William Bligh sailed with this explorer on his second voyage around the world |
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1995-11-20 |
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On his third voyage between 1770 & 1780, he went past Unalaska & into the Arctic Circle |
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1993-02-22 |
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In 1768 he led an expedition to Tahiti, where astronomers studied the transit of Venus across the sun |
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1992-11-19 |
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