Discovery

We talked about the meaning of the word ‘discovery’ in relation to Captain Cook ‘discovering’ things around the Pacific.

Here are some of our ideas about this.

Did Captain Cook discover countries?

No! Because it’s not Tera Nullius. Terra Nullius means no-one is there.
-Robin

In 1770, Captain Cook discovered the south east coast of Australia, landing in Botany Bay. On 22 August, 1770, he claimed the whole of the east coast of Australia at Possession Island, naming eastern Australia New South Wales.
-Ha Eum Mok

No because he went to New Zealand, Australia and many countries. Captain Cook couldn’t discover countries because there were many people in the countries.
-Emily

Captain Cook discovered all of the continents except for the south continent that was Australia and New Zealand. But one day he found those two lands and he claimed them for Britain.
-Sebastian

No! Because there already people there and there’s no people there anymore because people already left so it is easy to say it is Terrible Nullius.
-Guanyu

Yes. He went to New Zealand and South Africa and Tonga and that’s how he went to places and the people told him to ask people for land or, if people are not giving a piece of land, they have it for themselves.
-Milyn

 

 

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