James Cook

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The explorer I'm writing about is James Cook. He was an English explorer and his expedition began in 1788, according to the book Washington: A State of Contrasts. Captain Cook sailed down the Pacific coastline, and charted it, the book states, but that was not all he did. Additionally, according to plantexplorers.com he discovered the fact that there was no northwest passage. He also discovered many islands, such as Hawaii, according to old.gold.ac, a Goldsmith's College site. Unfortunately for him, Cook was killed by Hawaiian
 natives on the same voyage as he did all of these things.

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