Captain Cook

It is commonly believed in Australia that the English explorer Captain Cook discovered Australia. In reality Captain Cook navigated Australia using a map of the continent created by several Dutch explorers who discovered and circumnavigated most of the land mass nearly 80 years earlier. So the facts are he already knew New Holland existed, and the actual ‘Great Southern Land’ Captain cook was seeking was never Australia at all, but another land mass he never found, because it didn’t exist.