Introduction to Captain Cook's voyages -- Cook's visits to Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn, 1769 -- Crossing the Antarctic Circle -- Exploration of Sub-Antarctic regions -- Natural science, Cook's achievements and Antarctica after Cook.
Summary:
During parts of his three voyages in the southern Pacific and Southern Oceans, Cook narrowed the options' for the location of Antarctica. Over three summers, he completed a circumnavigation of portions of the Southern Continent, encountering impenetrable barriers of ice, and he suggested the continent existed, a frozen land not populated by a living soul.
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