Captain Cook: Charting our islands

Hey Bloggers I've been reading a book called Captain Cook: Charting our Islands I will tell you now why kids should read this book.

I strongly recommend that Students should read this book because It is a very interesting book about Captain Cook and how he discovered New Zealand. He had two sets of  Instructions. First was to sail to Tahiti and perceive the transit of Venus, and The next was to sail south and try find a great large south continent.

         

Captain Cook use to use Lead weight and rope to see the depth of the water. Did you know on 6 October 1769 that a 12 year old Nicholas Young first spotted New Zealand. Sailer's use to use sextants to measure the angle between Horizon and the sun. 
sextant is an instrument with a graduated arc of 60° and a sighting mechanism, used for measuring the angular distances between objects and especially for taking altitudes in navigation and surveying.

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