--- title: Explorers: Cook and the Pacific — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Long before any European ship arrived, Polynesian navigators crossed the Pacific in double canoes, reading the stars, the waves and the fl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Explorers: Cook and the Pacific # Explorers: Cook and the Pacific Lesson 28 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/0/) — Long before any European ship arrived, Polynesian navigators crossed the Pacific in double canoes, reading the stars, the waves and the flight of birds, and settled islands from Hawaii to New Zealand. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/1/) — In 1642 the Dutch sailor Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and New Zealand, and in the 1760s and 1770s the British captain James Cook made three great voyages and mapped coasts so well that some of his charts were used for centuries. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/2/) — Cook kept his crew healthy with fresh food and sauerkraut, carried scientists and artists who drew strange new animals like the kangaroo, and sailed further south than anyone, until walls of ice turned him back. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/3/) — Think of a new neighbour moving in and telling everyone he found the street: when Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, Aboriginal people had lived there for more than 50,000 years. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/4/) — So every explorer's story has two sides: great courage and skill, and the colonies that later took land from the people already there. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/5/) — Polynesian navigators crossed the Pacific in double canoes, finding their way by the stars, waves and birds, and settled islands from Hawaii to New Zealand. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/6/) — In 1642 the Dutch sailor Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and New Zealand; Tasmania is named after him, and New Zealand after the Dutch region of Zeeland. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/7/) — James Cook, a British naval captain, made three great voyages in the 1760s and 1770s, mapping New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/8/) — Cook fought scurvy with fresh food and sauerkraut and lost far fewer men to it than earlier voyages. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/9/) — Cook carried scientists and artists, such as the botanist Joseph Banks, who collected thousands of new plants and drew animals like the kangaroo. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/10/) — Tupaia, a navigator from Tahiti, sailed with Cook, helped guide the ship and helped him talk with the Māori. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/11/) — In 1770 Cook landed at Botany Bay and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain, though Aboriginal people had lived there for over 50,000 years. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/13/) — Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779 in a fight that started over a stolen boat. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/14/) — Cook sailed further south than anyone before, crossing the Antarctic Circle, but turned back at the ice, and Antarctica was first seen in 1820. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/15/) — Explorers were brave and skilled, but their voyages also opened the way for colonies that took land from local peoples. - ← previous: [Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/) - next →: [The age of science](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)