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... Cook to accurately determine longitude . And a great southern continent ? " Whether the unexplored part of the Southern Hemisphere be only an immense mass of water , " Cook wrote , " or contain another continent , as speculative ...
... Cook to accurately determine longitude . And a great southern continent ? " Whether the unexplored part of the Southern Hemisphere be only an immense mass of water , " Cook wrote , " or contain another continent , as speculative ...
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... Cook pushed deepest south , at one point reaching 71 ° 10 ' S , the continental coast also turns far south . After three years and eight days at sea , the Resolution arrived back in England , having traveled 60,000 miles . Cook had once ...
... Cook pushed deepest south , at one point reaching 71 ° 10 ' S , the continental coast also turns far south . After three years and eight days at sea , the Resolution arrived back in England , having traveled 60,000 miles . Cook had once ...
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... Cook / Auscape ; 20-21 , Galen Rowell / Mountain Light Photography ; 21 , C. Allan Morgan ; 24-25 Gordon Wiltsie ; 26 , Mitsuaki Iwago / Minden Pictures ; 28-29 , Tui de Roy / The Roving Tortoise ; 30-31 , José Azel / Aurora ; 32 , Ann ...
... Cook / Auscape ; 20-21 , Galen Rowell / Mountain Light Photography ; 21 , C. Allan Morgan ; 24-25 Gordon Wiltsie ; 26 , Mitsuaki Iwago / Minden Pictures ; 28-29 , Tui de Roy / The Roving Tortoise ; 30-31 , José Azel / Aurora ; 32 , Ann ...
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