250 years ago, Cook landed at Botany Bay

By Max Blenkin
Updated April 22 2020 - 9:03am, first published 9:00am
Captain Cook had orders to search the southern Pacific for the rumoured Terra Australis continent.
Captain Cook had orders to search the southern Pacific for the rumoured Terra Australis continent.

Long before Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay and later raised the flag for England, there was a widespread belief in the existence of a mysterious great southern land.

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