On this day: 1772 Captain James Cook begins 2nd voyage aboard the Resolution to the South Seas to search for Terra Australis (Southern continent). He would become the first person to cross the Antarctic circle.
On this day: 1772 Captain James Cook begins 2nd voyage aboard the Resolution to the South Seas to search for Terra Australis (Southern continent). He would become the first person to cross the Antarctic circle.
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In the course of the voyage he visited Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti, the Society Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Palmerston Island, South Sandwich Islands, and South Georgia, many of which he named in the process. Cook proved the Terra Australis Incognita to be a myth and predicted that an Antarctic land would be found beyond the ice barrier.
~~He would become the first person to cross the Antarctic circle.~~
“His crew and he would become the first persons (maybe, that we know of, probably someone else from another continent then europe did it before) to cross the Antarctic circle.”