Cook Come quite close to discovering Antarctica during his first expedition, although he may not have discovered the safe big southern continent. In 1773 he made the first known intersection of the Antarctic circle, after which he annexed southern Georgia Island to the Crown. Cook’s Voyage traveled around the world at an extreme southern latitude, and on January 17, 1773 it became one of the first to pass The southern Arctic circle. Resolution and adventure are divided into the icy fog. Furreaux traveled to New Zealand, ran by Mori and finally sailed back to the United Kingdom, while Cook resumed its exploration of Antarctica and arrived at 71 ° 10 on January 31, 1774.
Cook only missed getting into contact with Antarctic Continent before turning his ship for Tahiti to refill. In a second pointless attempt to find the alleged continent, he then resumed his southern journey. He traveled with Omai, a young Tahitian who turned out to be somewhat less knowledgeable about the Pacific than Tupaia had been on the earlier stage of the trip. Cook stayed on the friendly islands, Easter Island, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia and Vanuatu during their return from 1774 to New Zealand. Cook and his team finally made four trips around the Antarctic circle. During one of his travels he came very close to see Antarctic himself, but Pack Ice made him turn before he could get closer, which made the white continent an unattainable goal.
