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James Cook: Charting the Unseen Pacific

Captain James Cook's 1768 voyage aboard HMS Endeavour redefined maritime exploration, melding scientific aims with covert missions in search of Terra Australis. This journey, while enhancing navigational knowledge, also profoundly impacted indigenous populations and paved the way for European colonial ambitions in the Pacific.