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A gripping account of Captain Cook’s final voyage
Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook ... the two ships were in the Arctic Ocean sailing toward Siberia. Cook was careful, “zagging ...
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The Cook Voyages - HMS Endeavour, HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery
Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across ... newly opened South Kensington Museum in 1881 In 1772, Cook captained the HMS Resolution on a voyage to find land mass in the southern seas, sailing ...
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Meet the scientists living on research ship sailing from Southampton
Scientists living and working onboard a research ship have given an insight into their unusual life onboard. Dr Yvonne Firing and Will Major have embarked on RRS James Cook expeditions as part of ...
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Captain Cook statue in Sydney defaced ahead of Australia's national day
SYDNEY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two ...