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==Exploration== * March 26 β [[First voyage of James Cook]]: English explorer Captain [[James Cook]] and his crew aboard {{HMS|Endeavour}} complete the circumnavigation of [[New Zealand]]. * April 18 (April 19 by Cook's log)<ref>{{cite journal|first=Arthur R.|last=Hinks|title=Nautical time and civil date|journal=[[The Geographical Journal]]|volume=86|year=1935|pages=153β157|doi=10.2307/1786590}}</ref> β Captain Cook and his crew become the first recorded Europeans to encounter the eastern coastline of the [[Australia]]n continent. * April 28 (April 29 by Cook's log) β Captain Cook drops anchor in a wide bay about 16 km (10 mi) south of the present city of [[Sydney]], Australia. Because the young [[botanist]] on board the ship, [[Joseph Banks]], discovers 30,000 specimens of plant life in the area, 1,600 of them unknown to European science, Cook names the place [[Botany Bay]] on May 7. * August 22 (August 23 by Cook's log) β Captain Cook determines that [[New Holland (Australia)]] is not contiguous with [[New Guinea]].
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