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是谁发现了澳大利亚?史学界一般认为是18世纪英国的航海探险家詹姆斯·库克船长。澳大利亚在未被发现之前,曾被称为“未知南方大陆”。“未知南方大陆”是公元前一世纪古希腊地理学家托勒密命名的。库克船长在前人航行的基础上曾经3次远渡重洋来到南半球,他不但发现了澳大利亚.也发现了新西兰和夏威夷等太平洋的众多岛屿。库克船长1728年出生在英国北部约克郡的一个小村庄,他从少年时代起就对航海探险拥有浓厚的
Who discovered Australia? Historians generally consider it to be Captain James Cook of the 18th century British safari explorer. Australia was known as “Unknown Southern Continent” until it was discovered. “Unknown southern continent ” is named after Ptolemaic ancient Greek geographer a century BC. Captain Cook, who traveled three times across the oceans to the southern hemisphere on the basis of his predecessors, not only discovered Australia, but also discovered many Pacific islands such as New Zealand and Hawaii. Captain Cook was born in 1728 in a small village in Yorkshire in the north of England where he had a strong