Why did Captain Cook fail to discover Antarctica? Detailed answer

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Why did Captain Cook fail to discover Antarctica?

With the discovery of Antarctica, the famous English navigator James Cook (1728-1779) was very unlucky. In search of the southern continent, he reached latitude 30 degrees 1774 minutes on the meridian 71 degrees 10 minutes west on January 106, 34. There the ship ran into a solid field of pack ice that stretched to the horizon, and Cook was forced to turn back to the north. Before Cook, not a single person penetrated so far to the south - moreover, in this area and for more than 200 years after Cook, not a single ship passed so far to the south.

The reason for Cook's bad luck was that he sought to find the southern continent from a direction that was far from optimal. The extreme point reached by him lies south of the latitude at which at least half of the coast of Antarctica is located. If he had sailed further west (for example, between 30 and 160 degrees east longitude), he could have seen Antarctica at much lower latitudes. Cook, on the other hand, was in an area where the coast of Antarctica slopes far to the south.

The great navigator exacerbated his failure with a proud statement made after returning from this trip: “I can safely say that not a single person will ever dare to penetrate further south than I did. The lands that may be in the south will never be explored ".

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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