Captain Cook Charting Our Islands
This article describes Captain Cook’s first visit to New Zealand where he charted the coastline. It focuses on Cook’s abilities as a skilled maker of charts and maps rather than as a great explorer.
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Series: School Journal Level 4 May 2016
Reading year level: 8
Category: Non-fiction
Topics: British Empire, charts, colonisation, exploration, James Cook, latitude, longitude, Māori, mapping, navigation, New Zealand history, soundings, surveying, transit of Venus
Captain Cook-Charting Our Islands
Words by Melanie Lovell-Smith
It also examines the maths involved in Cook’s chart making (a perfect, real-life example of maths in everyday life).
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School Journal Level 4 May 2016
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5 of 7Surge
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6 of 7Waiting for Toni
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