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James Cook was born on October 27, 1728 in Marton, (in present-day Middlesbrough) Yorkshire, England. Cook was Born in a rickety old cabin and was born poor.
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Cook apprenticed to John Walker, a whity shipowner.
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Cook Joined the Royal Navy and saw active service in the English channel and Atlantic.
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During the 7 years war Cook sailed with the fleet to Canada where he learned to survey and assisted with the charting of theSSt. Lawrence River which helped with the siege and fall of Quebec
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Cook returned to England and married Elizabeth Batts.
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Cook was chosen to lead an expadition to the South Seas. HE left Plymoth and traveled via the Madeira, Rio de Janiero and Tierra del fuego to Tahiti
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From 1769-1770 he curcumnavigated New Zealand and from october 1769-february 1770 charted the north and south Islands
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The Endeavour sailed north along the east coast of Australia. But it struck the Great Barrier Reef and reapaired in the Endeavour River
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Cook arrived for repair at Batavia , Java. The crew caught fever and many died there or on the return homeback to Cape Town.
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Cook in the Resolution and Furneaux in the Adventure left Plymoth and sailed via Madieraand Cape Town, South Africa towards the Antarctic in search of the great southern continent.
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The ships become the first recorded to cross the Anarctic circle but become seperated in the fog. The ships rendezvoused in New Zealand.
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Sailed to the Hawaiian islands, Oregan and Nootka Sound before searching
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While visiting Cook was killed at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii
