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A 5 page paper which examines the history of Captain Cook and the influence his discovery of the islands had upon the people. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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controlling or colonizing the places he discovered. Yet, he was also a man who was perhaps aware of, and saddened at, the fact that with his discoveries Europeans would invade
and take control, leaving once wondrously native regions at the mercy of the white man. The following paper examines the explorations of Captain Cook and also examines the racial tensions
that exist even to this day in Hawaii as a result of Captain Cooks exploration. Captain Cook James Cook was born
in 1728 in Yorkshire (Captain Cook, 2005). "At 27 he enlisted in the Royal Navy and soon became boatswain on the 60-gun ship Eagle. Four years later he surveyed
the St Lawrence River, Newfoundland, in preparation for the capture of Quebec, and for three summers he conducted further surveys of the St Lawrence and the Nova Scotia and Newfoundland
coasts" (Captain Cook, 2005). It was in 1768 that he took his first Pacific voyage, the first of several journeys that would
result in the charting of the entire ocean (Captain Cook, 2005). He traveled, through all journeys combined, from New Zealand to the Arctic (Captain Cook, 2005). And, his charts were
not only new, but incredibly accurate and are still even used today (Captain Cook, 2005). His journeys covered over 8 years wherein he charted numerous islands that were previously unknown
to the outside world (Captain Cook, 2005). The first voyage was on the H.M. Bark Endeavour and its goal was to "observe
the passage of Venus over the disc of the Sun from Tahiti and then to search for a Great Southern Continent south of Tahiti" (Captain Cook, 2005). Then came the
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