Cook’s Classroom

February 2012

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February 2012

The entrance to Milford Sound looking much like it would have when Cook sailed past. Photo: Mark Banham
The outdoors makes the best classroom, just ask Captain James Cook Most people know Captain James Cook as the historically significant navigator, explorer and the man who, for better or worse, brought New Zealand under the wing of the British Empire. But as a sixteen-year-old, he was a bored kid working in a small-town shop, […]
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