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The first English edition of Cook’s rare engraved chart of the South Atlantic Ocean, from his second voyage account. The chart shows the tracks of Cook’s ship, the HMS Resolution in the vicinity of South Georgia and South Sandwich Island … Read Full Description
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The first English edition of Cook’s rare engraved chart of the South Atlantic Ocean, from his second voyage account.
The chart shows the tracks of Cook’s ship, the HMS Resolution in the vicinity of South Georgia and South Sandwich Island in the South Atlantic.
South Georgia was first discovered by Europeans in 1675 by Anthony de la Roché, a London merchant, and named Roche Island on a number of early maps. It was later sighted by a Spanish ship named León operating out of Saint-Malo on 28 June or 29 June 1756. According to Argentine historians, it was explored on 29 June 1756, St Peter’s Day, hence its Spanish name Isla San Pedro, literally “St Peter’s Island”.. Captain James Cook in HMS Resolution made the first landing, survey and mapping of the island, and on 17 January 1775 he claimed it a British possession, naming it “Isle of Georgia” after King George III.
The results of Cook’s second voyage results extended the known areas of Antarctica.Â
 ‘This voyage produced a vast amount of information concerning the Pacific peoples and islands, proved the value of the chronometer as an aid to finding longitude, and improved techniques for preventing scurvy’ (Hill).
From Cook, J., A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World, performed in His Majesty’s Ships the ‘Resolution’ and ‘Adventure’ In the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775.
James Cook (1728 - 1779)
Cook was the most important navigator of the Age of Enlightenment, a period that saw the mystery of the Southland resolved, the discovery of New Zealand, Hawaii, numerous Pacific Islands and confirmation that a Northwest Passage did not exist. Cook was born in Yorkshire, England, the son of a Scottish labourer and apprenticeship for three years under John Walker, a Quaker coal-shipper of Whitby. In 1755 Walker offered him a command, but instead Cook joined HMS Eagle and within a month was master's mate. After two years on the Channel service, he was promoted master of the Pembroke, and in 1758 crossed the Atlantic in her and took part in the siege of Louisburg and the survey of the St Lawrence River that led to the capture of Quebec. Returning to England in 1762 he married Elizabeth Batts (1742-1832?) of Shadwell, whom he was to rarely see in the ensuing years at sea. Cook then famously commanded three voyages that ended with his death on the island of Hawaii on 14 February 1779.
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