The first map of Australia

THE FIRST MAP OF AUSTRALIA

The first european , who recorded Australia on map was a  well-known English captain James Cook.

He was born in 1728 in Yorkshire , England . 

Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755.

Later he was sent by the British Admiralty as commander of Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages.

In 1766 , the Royal Society engaged him to travel to the Pacific Ocean . Cook made some observations , after which he sailed to New Zealand . He made a map of the islands . He then voyaged west and reached the south-eastern cost of Australia in April 1770 . And so his expedition became the first recorded . Europeans to have encountered eastern coastline of Australia.

Boris Yastrebov      Form 7G
07.09.2013