The first sighting had been of Point Hicks, but it wasn’t until the ship had travelled some distance along the coast to what is now known as Botany Bay that Cook and his crew felt they had found a suitable mooring.
Robert McClure departed England with HMS Investigator to lead the first expedition to transit the Northwest Passage.
The channel they found through the South American landmass was named the Strait of All Saints, but is now known as the Strait of Magellan.
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