Charting Captain James Cook

On August 1768, Captain James Cook, he had two sets of instructions, the first instructions was too travel to Tahiti and observe the transits of Venus, which would be an event that would be watched by everybody, even scientists! all around the world, Captain James Cook, second sets of instructions was "Secret", that not many people knew, after his transit, his ship, The Endeavour was heading to south. 
it was hoped Cook would find the "Great Continent". people thought that landmass must exist to the "balance" out the world, the time had come to actually put in the map. 
After James Cook observed the transit, Cook has finally set sail to the south, He no idea of what he could find there,three months later, it was October 6th 1769, a twelve year old Salior named Nicholas young has spotted the land, The Endeavour Sailed Turanganui-a-kiwa-near-present-day Gisborne - two days later. 

Just like earth, Venus travels around the sun, but it follows a closer orbit. Sometimes the planets path takes it between Earth and the sun, when it happens, we can see Venus move across the suns face. This is called a transit, Venus transits are very rare, but predictable, but they can occur. I think charting was important to Captain James Cook, but not only Charting was important to James Cook, but also math's was, Math's was important to Captain James Cook because, math's can help you if your stuck, example, lets say I get lost in a forest right? I use my math's inside me, the reason why is because I could redo my steps, or use a compass, there are so many ways to use maths.  



                                                     
Today I learned about Captain James Cook, and about his history, we also learned how to write an essay! we learned about longitude and latitude, I had so much fun writing this. 


information by Melanie Lovell-Smith