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week broadcast around the world. Found by the Endurance 22 Expedition using a state-of-the-art autonomous underwater vehicle, we now have images almost as iconic as those taken of the stricken ship by Australian photographer and expedition member Frank Hurley in 1915.
On his first journey Cook mapped the east coast of Australia, on his second the British Admiralty sent him into the vast Southern Ocean. Equipped with one of the first accurate chronometers, Cook pushed his small vessel not merely into the Roaring Forties or the Furious Fifties but become the first explorer to penetrate the Antarctic Circle, reaching an incredible Latitude 71 degrees South, just failing to discover Antarctica.
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Reading time: 8 minutes It remains one of history’s best-known naval tragedies – and mysteries....
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes We know it is more than 60,000 years since...
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Captain Cook has been celebrated, wrongly, as the first European to discover Australia but many...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Before dawn on the morning of June 4 1629, the Batavia, a ship...
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