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James Cook – 3 Navigators, astronomers, botanists and artists It is thanks to the early pioneering voyagers of discovery that we know so much about our world today.
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HMB Endeavour following the eastern coast of Australia
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Read the text and choose the correct words from the box to fill the gaps. James Cook learned to
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and sail a ship when he joined the navy. Before taking
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of his own ships, he served his country in Canada while Britain was at
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with France.
© R. I . C.Publ i c t i ons was ofa great to James Cook. He• was f able tor use r thee position of the moon and stars to work oute thes position of a l ship. o vi e w p u r p os on yThis•involved complicated
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which had to be repeated daily. The purpose of James Cook’s first Pacific
was to sail to Tahiti to observe the planet
between the Earth and the
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. Cook had been given another set of
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as it travelled
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in a sealed envelope, which were not to be opened until he had set sail from Britain.
he was to sail south in search of the great . tesouthern land, which many navigators and scientists believed existed.oWhen he found c . it, he was to claim it for Britain. When position of cthishwasedone, Cook was to chart the r e o New Zealand in the Pacific . The astronomer, Charles Green, accompanied James Cook t r s su per These told him that on leaving
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on his voyage. He was to help Cook plot the
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of Venus as it moved in front of the sun.
Joseph Banks, a wealthy young man with a great passion for
, paid for his own passage
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on board Endeavour. He wanted to collect and document any new when landings were made on the new continent. The
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of plants discovered
tree has been named after Sir
Joseph Banks. Sydney Parkinson was the ship’s draughtsman, who kept a journal of from the voyage and also
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examples of Banks’s collections. 76
Australia on the map
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