Wouldn't he have got there quicker.
2007-10-18 03:36:19 · 29 answers · asked by elizadushku 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I can't believe any intelligent person asked this question!!!
2007-10-18 04:03:50 · answer #1 · answered by quette2@btopenworld.com 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
he discovered Australia and new Zealand. Botany Bay is the place where Lieutenant James Cook landed in April 1770 -- there never was a Captain Cook on the Australian mainland, though he was a captain when he later visited Tasmania and New Zealand -- with his friends and crew on board the bark Endeavour. Two of his companions, Daniel Solander and Joseph Banks, were botanists, and they were entranced by the number of flowers blooming in what the calendar said was our late autumn. But while they were very good at collecting and identifying plants, the two were less effective in identifying good farming land.
2016-05-23 08:27:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WOW! i hope for your sake you are not serious cos no it wouldn't have been quicker because he discovered australia in 1770 ...had he waited to use a plane he would have had to wait until 1903 at the very least although the planes in 1903 could hardly have flown from england to australia! ... it would have taken him an extra 133 years! instead of say the 2 years it took him to explore new zealand and australia!
2007-10-18 04:15:50 · answer #3 · answered by izzie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Getting there quickly wasn't his plan. Captain Cook was an explorer and scientist who wanted to explore the world and find new countries and places for the "glory" of his Queen and her Empire. If he had waited for a plane ticket we would all be going "James who?" - and there would not be a picture of the Endeavour on the New Zealand 50 cent piece.
2007-10-18 15:19:59 · answer #4 · answered by esoeterik_librarian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are either very silly and dont take this seriously or very ignorant of the dates of exploration. Captain Cooks adventures where in the late 1770's not in the 1900's
2007-10-18 21:08:16 · answer #5 · answered by Kevan M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the inhabitants where still manacled and had not set up a proper passport control. Also Stellios had bumped up the ticket prices on Easy Jet and Qantas well they where just taking the mickey with their prices so Cooky decided to hire a few chips and sailed down there. Lo xxx
2007-10-18 20:51:45 · answer #6 · answered by Lo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only "Planes" known then were made of feathers and strapped onto a person's back. If you flew too close to the sun, you caught on fire! Not a good way to get to get from A to B.
Are you serious? Well if you are, so am I!
Lol!
2007-10-18 03:41:15 · answer #7 · answered by kiteeze 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The aeroplanes of that period could not carry enough fuel to reach Australia.
It was not until the coalfired aeroplane was replaced by an oil fired version, that the journey could be undertaken by aircraft. Hence the inconvenience of going by ship.
2007-10-18 03:48:50 · answer #8 · answered by Rolf 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason that the Romans didn't use machine guns, or that Samuel Pepys didn't write his diary on a laptop, or that the cave men spent their evenings painting the walls instead of watching TV.
2007-10-18 03:52:08 · answer #9 · answered by psymon 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
because captain cook wasn't clever enough to invent a plane and since he didn't have magic wings to fly, sea was the quickest option available.
2007-10-18 04:00:14 · answer #10 · answered by calypso 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cook did Oz a few hundred years before the Wright brothers were born...
2007-10-18 03:39:17 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋