James Cook
7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779
British naval captain and explorer who charted vast areas of the Pacific, including New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, on three great voyages.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with James Cook.
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- Denis Diderot (1713–1784) Overlapped 51 years →
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) Overlapped 51 years →
- James Lind (1716–1794) Overlapped 51 years →
- John Hunter (1728–1793) Overlapped 51 years →
- John Wesley (1703–1791) Overlapped 51 years →
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Became the first recorded expedition to cross the Antarctic Circle
17 January 1773
Achieved during his second Pacific voyage aboard HMS Resolution.
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