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Mauritius Ship Models | Boat Models in Mauritius When Cook set sail with his H.M Bark Endeavour from Plymouth on august 26, 1768, his goal was not the discovery of new continents. It was a scientific voyage to study Venus which was to transit across the disk of the sun in the view from Earth on June 3, 1769. In 1716, Edmund Halley had suggested that the distance from the sun to the Earth could be calculated by timing the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun. When Cook was put in command over his ship he was quite young, only 40 years of age. Cook was given his command because of his experience as a scientist of geography, rather than his experience in the navy. Because Captain James Cook was a scientist above all, his descriptions of the land he encountered were very valuable for the British Admiralty, unlike the reports of the explorers before him, who were not scientists but travelers. On his first voyage (with the ship Endeavour), Cook went to Tahiti, New Zealand, New Holland, Australia, New Guinea and Batavia. He also took possession for the Crown of the "Society Islands" (a lot of small islands close to Tahiti Cook named this way because his voyage was ordered by the Royal Society of Britain who wanted a worldwide observation of Venus). Although Cook was not really the first to discover most of this land, he is however the man who really brought them onto the map as we know them today. Captain James Cook was killed on February 14, 1779 on his 3rd voyage when his ship, the H.M.S Resolution was attacked by Hawaiians.

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Mauritius Ship Models | Boat Models in Mauritius En Juin 1769, L'ENDEAVOUR entreprit une nouvelle exploration. A la mi-octobre 1769 le capitain Cook designa les position de la Nouvelle Zelande ainsi que ses caracteristiques naturelles. Il traversa le bras de mer qui separe d'Australia de la Nouvelle Zelande et devint ainsi le premier explorateur de L'Australie. Il decouvrit la Nouvelle Guinee et partit a la decouverte des cotes meridionales et Orientales. Sur le chemin du retour, il navigua au large du Cap de Bonne Esperance et rentra en Angleterre en 1771. Malheureusement l'expedition organisee en fevrier 1774, lui fut fatale; il connut une fin tragique: capture et tue par un peuple sauvage sur une ile inconnue.

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