This man received the Copley Medal for writing a paper on how to avoid scurvy, from which none of his crew died on his first voyage.
This man received the Copley Medal for writing a paper on how to avoid scurvy, from which none of his crew died on his first voyage. He undertook that voyage in order to observe the transit of Venus, as Sir Edmund Hawke would not permit a non-sailor from commanding the expedition. An incident during his third voyage involving a stolen canoe led to this man's death in Hawaii, and he had previously made landfall at Botany Bay. Evidence from this man's second voyage put down the notion of Terra Australis, a massive southern continent. He mapped out land outlines in Newfoundland. For 10 points, name this explorer, the first European to reach Australia and New Zealand.
This man received the Copley Medal for writing a paper on how to avoid scurvy, from which none of his crew died on his first voyage.
James {Cook}