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Subject: James Cook. Ex : Electronic vs non-electronic
From: b. veyron (veyron@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Oct 05 1999 - 05:39:29 EDT
I don't get it. James Cook is 1770, which is 18th century, no?
You're probably talking of Willem Janszoon who discovered Carpentarie Gulf
in 1605, and Abel Tasman in 1642-1643. The first to sail this part of the
world, south of Timor, were the Portuguese.
Bernard Veyron
Noirmoutier
> Nope, first survey's of the east Aust coast were done by James Cook in
> 1770 and in places todays charts carry a note that they had not been
> surveyed since,
> John
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> Pierre Boucher wrote:
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>> Are you shure you did not mean 18th/early 19th centuries???
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>> Pierre
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>> >One thing you've got to remember (at least in my part of the world) is
>> >that many charts are still base on surveysdone in the late 17th/early
>> >18th centuries. Remarkably accurate given the timepieces and other nav
>> >instruments in use then
>> >John
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