Who was the 18th Century Explorer

who discovered Australia?

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Captain

James Cook

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Captain James Cook was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer. He made the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia

and the Hawaiian Islands,

and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

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