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08 May 2010 @ 9:56 AM

James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific

James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
28 August 2009 – 28 February 2010

catalogue of the travelling exhibition :
James Coo k and the Exploration of the Pacific ~ Adrienne L. Kaeppler Nathaniel Dance Captain James Cook (1728-1779) London 1776,© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

The British navigator and explorer James Cook (1728–1779) is famous for having led three expeditions into the vast and uncharted waters of the Pacific Ocean. He was the first to survey and map New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific islands, completing our modern image of the world and refuting once and for all the existence of a mythical Southern Continent.

An exhibition of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in ...
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Tags: james cook, oceanic
Categories: book review, Germany, oceanic Posted By: nordend
Last Edit: 08 May 2010 @ 11 35 AM

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