captain cook charting

captain cook is captain who sailed from britain in august 1768 to mercury bay with his crew. cook charted new zealand useing a methed called running survey. To do this he had to use a compass to chart mercury bay. cook also made some detailed charts like this one of the river thames and mercury.cook had work to out the time based on the sun useing a quadrant.

cook had been instructed that if he found land, he was to chart it. although he did't know it when he set out from Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, an enormouse task layed for him: 9,300 miles (15,000 kilometres) of unfamiliar coastline.Surveying new zealand would take cook seven months.A crucial part of the running survey involved finding latitude and longitude.These gave cook his exact position which allowed him to chart the coastline and place new zealand correctly on the world map

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