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James Cook   /dʒeɪmz kʊk/   Listen
James Cook

noun
1.
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779).  Synonyms: Captain Cook, Captain James Cook, Cook.



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... American colonies two hundred years before. A century later the victories of Lord Clive and the administration of Warren Hastings, the empire-builder, laid a broad foundation for British dominion in India. Before the dawn of the nineteenth century the voyages of Captain James Cook in the South Pacific had opened new doors to Anglo-Saxon expansion in Australia, New Zealand, and the neighboring islands. In 1806 England wrested from the Dutch the sovereignty of Cape Colony at the southern extremity ...
— Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century • James Richard Joy



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