Correspondence from Captain James Cook to Captain Charles Clerke, 1776

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Correspondence from Captain James Cook to Captain Charles Clerke, 1776

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English explorer Captain James Cook was born in Yorkshire on 27 October 1728. He led three voyages of discovery in the late eighteenth century and was the first European to define the outline of New Zealand. The 1776 letter pictured above is the oldest record in Archive New Zealand’s holdings. In 1988, the Poverty Bay Club illegally exported t...

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Archives New Zealand / Archives / Captain Cook / 1776 / New Zealand / New Zealand History / NZ / NZ History / British History / British Empire

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