Aboriginal spears repatriated after 250 years
The four spears were taken by Captain Cook's crew during their first contact with Australia in 1770.
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James Cook
British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
Captain James Cook was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
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