[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.