Captain Cook

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Captain Cooks first journey to Australia
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Captain Cooks life facts

• Born November 7, 1728 died February 14, 1779.
• Born in England to a poor family. Joined the Navy
  in 1755 as a teenager.
• He was a explorer, navigator, cartographer and
  eventually Captain of the Royal Navy.
• He made 3 voyages to the Pacific exploring
  Australia, Hawaiian Islands and New Zealand.

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Captain Cooks VoyagesLegend first trip Green.
Second Trip Red. Third Trip Blue.
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The reason for Captain Cooks Voyages

• In 1768, Cook began the first of the three great
  Pacific voyages which would see him chart the
  whole ocean, from New Zealand to the Arctic, so
  accurately that his charts can still be used
  today. Cook spent over eight and a half years
  chartingpreviously unknown islands.Cook's ship
  for his first Pacific voyage was H.M. Bark
  Endeavour. The aim of the voyage was to observe
  the passage of Venus over the disc of the Sun
  from Tahiti and then to search for a "Great
  Southern Continent" south of Tahiti. Endeavour
  left Plymouth on 25 August 1768, called at
  Madeira and Rio de Janeiro and, after rounding
  Cape Horn, reached Tahiti on 10 April 1769. The
  transit of Venus was duly recorded on 3 June 1769
  and Cook soon began the second part of the
  voyage.