Captain Cook

running survey. to do this, he sailed to shore taking his compass reading of the same prominent landmark, such as big hills, head lands and cliffs.

then he will sail a short distance along the coast so that he could take

 readings of the same landmarks from a different position before plotting them on his chart.

cook then sketched the coastline between the plotted landmarks to complete the out 

line.a crucial part of the running survey involved finding latitude and longitude.

these gave cook his exact position witch allowed him to chart the coastline and place new Zealand

correctly on a world map.cook worked out latitude by measuring the angle of between the horizon and the sun when it was its highest position in the sky.

he did this using the movement of the ship and the result were more precise.longitude was much more difficult to work out because it is based on time to find their longitude.

cook needed to know the time in both Greenwich and new Zealand.like explorers before him cook relied on what he already knew to find out.

what i enjoyed was writing this down and learning about captain cook        

what i didn't enjoy was writing this down by myself

what will change next time is to check my capital letter and make scene.