Surely no one believes Cook was the first to Australia. When Cook returned to England making that claim, Commander Dalrymple of the British Admiralty protested vigorously, as the Admiralty had excellent maps of Australia that were already 250 years old!
Somehow, when I think of floating around the south pacific in a 16th century galleon, I just can’t get my mind around the fact that dudes did that.
I was on the south pacific in a modern warship, and it still scared the living sh!t out of me.
I just can’t imagine what it was like.