Captain James Cook's three voyages (1768-1779) mapped the Pacific Ocean with unprecedented accuracy, charted the coastlines of New Zealand and eastern Australia, made first European contact with Hawaii, and recorded hundreds of previously unknown plant and animal species. His voyages combined scientific inquiry with geographic exploration in a way that defined the Enlightenment approach to discovery.

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