Exploration Of the pacific by captain james cook
Andrew Pye
- In search of the Northwest Passage, he explored the Pacific Ocean
- He discovered the islands that make up Hawaii in 1778
- Able to communicate with natives using Polynesian dialect and language
- Hawaiian people traded pigs and provisions for iron wares
- Visits resulted in the transmission of venereal diseases
- He returned to the Islands of Hawaii after his search for the Northwest Passage
- Returned to a less-welcoming society
- Died in a dispute between islanders and his crew over petty thefts
- News spread about his explorations
- Whalers, missionaries, merchants and planters soon began to explore the pacific
- European and Euro-Americans had become prominent people in all major pacific island groups in the 19th century
- All interaction resulted in rapid, unsettling changes in island societies during the 19th and 20th centuries.
- epidemic diseases spread, similar to the effect presented by the Columbian Exchange
- technological changes due to introduction to improved technology from the Eastern Hemisphere
- He explored much of Australia
- Entering from the Southeast, he was the first to map that side of the continent
- Unaware of the Great Barrier Reef, his ships got quite destroyed approaching the coast
- he barely survived