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Cook, James (1728–1779)

English navigator and explorer who led three celebrated expeditions to the Pacific Ocean (1768–71; 1772–75; 1776–80), during which he charted the coast of New Zealand (1770), showed that if there were a great southern continent it could not be so large as was commonly supposed, and discovered the Sandwich Islands. He died in an attack by Hawaiian natives.




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