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Cook's expedition circumnavigates the globe at an …

Years: 1773 - 1773
February
Cook's expedition circumnavigates the globe at an extreme southern latitude, becoming one of the first to cross the Antarctic Circle (January 17, 1773).

Resolution and Adventure become separated in the Antarctic fog on February 8.

Furneaux directs Adventure towards the prearranged meeting point of Queen Charlotte Sound (New Zealand), charted by Cook in 1770.

On the way to the rendezvous, Adventure surveys the southern and eastern coasts of Tasmania (then known as "Van Diemen's Land"), where Adventure Bay is named for the ship.

Furneaux makes the earliest British chart of this shore, but as he does not enter Bass Strait, he assumes Tasmania to be part of Australia.
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Australasia (1773 - 1773)
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Southern Australasia (1773 - 1773)