ДЖЕЙМС КУК James Cook
The first voyage around the world (1768 -1771 years) The main stated goal - seeing the passage of Venus across the Sun - has been performed, but the results of the experiment has not delivered due to inaccurate measurements caused by the imperfection of the equipment at the time. The second problem - the opening of the Southern continent - was not completed, and is now known, could not be carried out by Cook during his first voyage. (Southern continent was discovered by Russian sailors FF Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev ). The expedition also proved that New Zealand - are two separate islands, separated by a narrow channel (Cook Strait), and not part of an unknown continent, as was previously thought. Failed to place on the map a few hundred miles of the eastern coast of Australia, to the time totally unexplored. Opened Strait between Australia and New Guinea. Botanists have collected a large collection of biological samples.
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The second circumnavigation Specific goals that put the Admiralty before the second expedition Cook unknown. We only know that the task of the expedition included the continuation of the study of the Southern Seas. Most definitely, persistent attempts to cook as much as possible to get to the south had to find a southern continent. It is unlikely that Cook acted in this way merely from personal initiative, so it seems very likely that the opening of the southern continent was one of the goals of the expedition, though of such plans and the Admiralty did not know.
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Third circumnavigation The main goal set by the Admiralty before third expedition Cook - the so-called discovery of the Northwest Passage - a waterway crossing the North American continent, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and Australia.
Results of the expedition The main goal of the expedition - the opening of the Northwest Passage - was not achieved. Were discovered the Hawaiian Islands, Christmas Island other islands.
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