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2. Pacific Explorer - Wikipedia

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   Pacific Explorer (previously known as Dawn Princess) is a cruise ship operating since June 2017 by P&O Cruises Australia, a cruise line brand owned by the Carnival Corporation & plc. It is a Sun -class cruise ship built by Fincantieri , Italy, in 1997, and features eight restaurants, four swimming pools, five hot tubs/spas/whirlpools, seven ...

3. P&O Cruises Australia - Wikipedia

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   P&O Cruises Australia is a British-American owned cruise line with operational headquarters as part of Carnival Australia, based in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia. Originally a sister company of P&O Cruises in the United Kingdom, it was previously a constituent of P&O and has a direct link in history to the world's first cruise ships.

4. James Cook - Wikipedia

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   Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer, and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

5. Australian adventurer on rowing expedition across Pacific ...

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   A French plane spotted him in the ocean

6. Exploration of the Pacific - Wikipedia

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   The Spanish explorer Balboa was the first European to sight the Pacific from America in 1513 after his expedition crossed the Isthmus of Panama and reached a new ocean. [8] He named it Mar del Sur (literally, "Sea of the South" or "South Sea") because the ocean was to the south of the coast of the isthmus where he first observed the Pacific.

7. First voyage of James Cook - Wikipedia

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   On 16 February 1768 the Royal Society petitioned King George III to finance a scientific expedition to the Pacific to study and observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the face of the sun to enable the measurement of the distance from the Earth to the Sun. [2] Royal approval was granted for the expedition, and the Admiralty elected to combine the scientific voyage with a confidential mission ...