Captain James Cook makes an accidental discovery?

Bing ^ | 6/11/2021 | Bing

[MAGA2017]

I use the Bing engine to avoid using Google. It's far less offensive than Google but it still is stricken with Wokeness too.

The=y have history tidbits and this is what they have for today:

"Captain James Cook makes an accidental discovery English explorer Captain James Cook's ship runs aground off the coast of Australia, in the world's largest coral reef system. The Great Barrier Reef was already well-known to the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples."

Really? did the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples explored and map the the reef? Did they produce charts or any kind of map? Did they investigate and catalogue what lives there?

Maybe the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples knew the reef was there but that doesn't mean they understood it or its significance.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Not only that, but Kamala Harris promised to visit the reef in 1770, but she still hasn’t been there.

[tallyhoe]

I used xfinity and didn’t see any woke BS!!!!

[tallyhoe]

I mean I used /firefox no Woke BS!!!

[immadashell]

DuckDuckGo!

[Son-Joshua]

Agreed

[alternatives?]

I am surprised they didn’t wonder how much he damaged the reef.

[Kartographer]

"Really? did the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples explored and map the the reef? Did they produce charts or any kind of map? Did they investigate and catalogue what lives there?

Maybe the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples knew the reef was there but that doesn't mean they understood it or its significance."

Thats racist white talk you are spewing there.

[Mouton]

The point missed on these A holes is that cook sailed like 10000 miles from his home port while the locals took their canoes or whatever out on the receding tide. I will concede it was an accident of discovery but nonetheless it was quite a voyage.

[Kartographer]

Yea, but Cook only sailed those 10000 miles because of his white privilege

[Verginius Rufus]

Not only did the aborigines know about the Great Barrier Reef, they made underwater videos of it just like the colonizer Steve Irwin did later. Unfortunately the British destroyed the videos.

/s

[mass55th]

I use Bing because of the reward points, and because they honor all the national holidays on their home page.

[shotgun]

Something tells me the boats the native folks used were pretty shallow drafted hulls and they never worried about hanging up on the reef

[a fool in paradise]

Imperialist hegemony

[DoughtyOne]

Not to mention, did they contribute to a knowledge base the
rest of the world could use, as the explorer did?

“Yes everyone in their community knew of the local watering
hole, but people ten miles away didn’t.”

It’s when it becomes common knowledge for everyone, that a
thing is really “discovered”.

You know, the wiser these children get, the more they expose
themselves to being discovered for the fools they are.

[upchuck]

Give duckduckgo a shot. I feel you’ll be pleased.

[backwoods-engineer]

They fund leftist organizations. Try Qwant instead.

[Clutch Martin]

Cook gets a lot of credit....

Here’s a question

Who was Cooks navigator?

Hint: his navigation skills were put to the ultimate test, when he sailed from memory to Timor.

Answer: Captain Bligh

[Two Kids' Dad]

Are you sure it wasn’t Captain Sensible?

[Mr Rogers]

Does this mean someone who lives a half-mile from a reef is more likely to know its location than someone from 10,000 miles away?