COOKS VOYAGES. 



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tions on the transit of Venus, thus determining a precise longitude in the centre 

 of the Pacific. He then completely circumnavigated the two great islands of 

 New Zealand, surveyed the east coast of Australia, and rediscovered Torres 

 Strait. 



In his second voyage he explored more especially the Austral seas on both 

 sides of the polar circle, but advancing in the opposite direction from that taken 



Fio-. .5.- Dates of the Chief Discoveries in Oceania. 



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M. 1521. Magellan, Guahan, Philippines. 



Me. 1526. Menezes, 2Cew Guinea. 



S. 1528. A. de Saavedi'a, Carolines. 



S. 1529. A. de Saavedra, Marshall. 



G. 1531. Guillaume le Testu, Australia. 



v. 1Ô43. Villalobos, Carolines, Ptlew. 



Md. 1567. Mendana, Ellice, Solomon, Sandwich. 



Md. 1595. Mendana, Marquesas, Sta. Cruz. 



Q. 1606. Queiros, Low Islands, Falcaofo, New Hébrides. 



T. 1606. Torres, Torres Straits, Lnuisiades. 



X/. M. 1616. Lemaire, yiua/u, 2\ew Ireland. 



H. 1616. Hartog-, Endrachtsland. 



E. 1619. Edel, Edelsland. 



L. 1622. Leeuwlns, Leeuwinsland. 



N. 1627. Nuyts, Suytsland. 



W. 1628. Witts, Wittsland. 



T. 1642. Tasman, Tusnania, New Zealand. 



T. 1643. Tasman, Tonga, Fiji, Neiv Britoi7i. 

 T. 1644. Tasman, Tnsmanland, Carpentaria. 

 U. 1699. Dampier, New Guinea. 



B. 1765. Byron, Gilhert Island. 

 Wa. 1767. Wallis, Tahiti. 



Ca. 1767. Carteret, Pitcaim, Carteret, Low Islands. 

 Bo 1763. Bougainville, Samoa, Solomon. 



C. 1769. Cook. Austral Islands. 



C. 1770. Cook, Aew Zealand, Australia. 

 C. 1773. Cook, Hervey Islands. 



C. 1774. Cook, Savage Island, New Caledonia. 

 La. 1787. liapérouse. Sawaii. 



Br. 1791. Broughton, Chatham Island. 

 Ba. 1798. Bass, Pass's Strait. 

 Ha. 1810. Hazelburg, Macquarie. 

 Wk. 1811. Walker, Campbell. 



D. U. 1827. Dumont D'Urville, Fiji. 



hy all previous circumnavigators. He was thus the first to make the circuit of 

 the globe from west to east, according to the rotation round its axis. This event 

 took place over two hundred and fifty years after Magellan's circumnavigation 

 from east to west, following the regular course of the trade winds. 



Cook's third expedition was directed towards the northern waters, where 

 he penetrated through the strait separating the two continents of Asia and 

 America. He then rediscovered the Sandwich Islands, where he was first received 



