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In three voyages James Cook charts more of the Pacific than any European before him. Students follow his ships from Tahiti to New Zealand, Australia and Hawai'i, meet the Pacific navigators and Indigenous peoples he encountered, and ask what these meetings meant for both sides.
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- Trace Cook's voyages on the map and name three places he reached.
- Explain the scientific aims of the voyages, such as observing the transit of Venus.
- Describe the encounters from the point of view of Pacific peoples as well as Europeans.