He had sailed the Pacific with the famous Captain Cook and seen the wonders of Tahiti, Terra Australis, all the rest.

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By the late 18th century and Captain Cook's exploration of the southern Pacific (to check that no great southern continent existed), much of the world had been charted.

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Innovations aside, without pricing or availability details Nokia presented the products way too early as Nokia obviously wanted to be in the limelight before Captain Cook reveals all.

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Captain Cook only wished he had it so good.

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They moved often, living near Byron Bay, a beachfront community in New South Wales, and on Magnetic Island, a tiny pile of rock that Captain Cook believed had magnetic properties that distorted his compass readings.

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The Milford experience is much the same as it was when the native Maori people took roughly the same route to the southwest coast, today known as Fjordland, long before Captain Cook's arrival in 1769.

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That year Captain James Cook set off on the Endeavour, sailing to the South Seas to chart the transit of Venus and search for what turned out to be Australia.

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His plan of succession remains opaque, although Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook is helming the ship while the captain recuperates.

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