Captain James Cook and the Search for Antarctica / James C. Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, James C., 1833 or 1834- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages around the world--Early works to 1800.

Voyages around the world.

Antarctica--Discovery and exploration.

Antarctica.

Cook, James, 1728-1779.

Cook, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, England : Pen & Sword History, [2020]

Summary:

During parts of his three voyages in the southern Pacific and Southern Oceans, Cook narrowed the options' for the location of Antarctica. Over three summers, he completed a circumnavigation of portions of the Southern Continent, encountering impenetrable barriers of ice, and he suggested the continent existed, a frozen land not populated by a living soul.

Contents:

Cover

Book title

Copyright

Contents

List of Plates

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1: Introduction to Captain Cook's Voyages

Chapter 1 The Three Voyages ofCaptain Cook

Chapter 2 Terra Australis Incognita

Chapter 3 Ships and the Ships' Companies

Part 2: Cook's Visits to Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn, 1769

4. Tierra del Fuego, rounding Cape Horn and the Search for a 'Land of Great Extent'

Plate section

Part 3: Crossing the Antarctic Circle

5. Cook's First Crossing

6. Separated in an Antarctic Fog

7. 'An agitated &amp

tempestuous sea': the Cook Strait

8. Cook's Second Crossing

9. Cook's Third Crossing

Part 4: Exploration of Sub-Antarctic Regions

10. The Second Visit to Tierra del Fuego, Cape Horn and Staten Island

11. 'Wild Rocks, Thick Fogs, and Everlasting Snow': South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

12. The Second Voyage Publication Controversy

13. Kerguelen - Cook's 'Island of Desolation'

Part 5: Natural Science, Cook's Achievements and Antarctica after Cook

14. Natural Science and Cook's Journals

15. Cook's Search for Antarctica - Navigation in High Southern Latitudes

16. Antarctica and Sub-Antarctic Islands after Cook

Appendix A: Admiralty Instructions for Captain James Cook's Three Voyages

Appendix B: Journals and Log Books

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781526753601

152675360X

9781526753588

1526753588

OCLC:

1259593551