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    Captain Cook
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    Guest 

    answered 6 months ago

    Ok thanks
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    Awesomeine

    Awesomeine

    commented 6 months ago

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      Guest 

      answered 6 months ago

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        Guest 

        answered 2 weeks ago

        Most people will have you believe it was Captain Cook. Australians probably don't believe this but it is the conditioned reply from almost everyone else.
        Not only was he not a captain, but he wasn't the first European to see the continent of Australia. The Dutch beat him to it by a cool 150 years. Lieutenant Cook was the Endeavour's first voyage 1768 to 1771 but another Englishman, William Dampier had landed and made record of a large hopping animal in 1697.
        Dampier was a sea captain, navigator, explorer, cartographer, scientific observer and a bit of a pirate to boot. He circumnavigated the world three times, drew up the first wind map and is mentioned more than 1,000 time in the Oxford English dictionary for introducing  words to the language like cashew, chopsticks, tortilla, settlement, barbecue and avocado.
        A member of his crew, Alexander Selkirk was the model for the character Robinson Crusoe.
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        Razzle 

        answered 3 years ago

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