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James Cook (b. October 27? / 7 November 1728 [and] in Marton near Middlesbrough, Kingdom of Great Britain - d. February 14, 1779 on the coast of Kealakekua, Hawaii [1]) - English navigator and explorer, cartographer, astronomer. Organizer and manager of three trips around the world (1768-1780). During the first (1768-1771) won the Society Islands, penetrated areas of Melanesia and New Zealand reached the coast of Australia (1770) and the strait of Torres. During the second (1772-1775) discovered m.in .: New Caledonia, Fiji archipelago of islands in Polynesia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The third expedition (1776-1780) organized in order to find the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, reached the coast of Alaska, on the Chukchi Sea and Hawaii, where Cook was killed in a skirmish with the natives. Maps drawn by Cook changed the idea of ​​the outlines of continents and seas. Importance of the statement also had the possibility of colamicotion of Australi