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It had been visited 127 years ago by another explorer, but was not made known until James Cook,
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He set sail from England on his ship, the Endeavor, to the Rio de Janiero, to the west of Tahiti, then to the East Coast of Australia and to New Zealand.
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With the ships Resolution and Adventure, Cook goes to Cape Town, then heads south of Africa until he reached glaciers; he turned around and then when on to New Zealand. While on this voyage, he discovered several chains on the Pacific Ocean.
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He and his cousin (who was a whaler) went exploring what is now the Gulf Stream to see if it was a current that was making them go 3 miles an hour.
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The Navy wanted to find out if there was a Northwest Passage. He never found it; this passage was htought of as a myth.
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This is the day he was born!
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He joined the Navy at age 19, but had to leave due to an leg injury. While he was there, he studied different things about the sea and methods of navigation.
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(Europe, around the world, and to the Pacific coast of South America)
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Established uniform methods of making nautical and meteorological observations at sea.
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This was credited as "the first textbook of modern oceanography".
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Traveled 109,000 km (68,000 miles) led by British naturalist John Murray and Scottish naturalist Charles Wyville Thompson. One if its discoveries include the Marianas Trench, the deepest known trench in the ocean.
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He became ill during one of his lectures and died on this day.
