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This British captain sighted New Zealand in 1769 & accurately charted its coast |
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A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY |
2019-10-09 |
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The painting seenheredepicts this newsworthy fatality of 1779 |
Captain Cook
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THE 1700s |
2007-05-14 |
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Apprenticed to a British shipowner as a teen in the 1740s, he became one of the great explorers of the Pacific |
Captain Cook
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TEENS IN HISTORY |
2005-01-27 |
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Ironically, he might have saved himself from death in 1779 if he had known how to swim |
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HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN |
2004-07-06 |
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew strolls the shores of Waimea Bay, Kauai.) When this man arrived here on Kauai in the late 1770s, he was welcomed as the harvest god Lono |
Captain Cook
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HISTORIC MOMENTS |
2003-05-01 |
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In 1770, during the first of his 3 Pacific voyages, he discovered a passage between Australia & New Guinea |
Captain Cook
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HISTORY |
1996-02-16 |
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On Valentine's Day 1779, this English explorer was killed by natives in a struggle over a boat |
Captain Cook
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$600 |
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HISTORIC PEOPLE |
1993-12-22 |
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The British erected a monument at Kealakekua, Hawaii, where this explorer was killed |
Captain Cook
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HISTORIC SITES |
1991-01-22 |
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In the 1770s, to help prevent scurvy, he served sauerkraut aboard his ship, the Endeavor |
Captain Cook
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NAUTICAL HISTORY |
1987-05-11 |
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