Incredible Facts
Select topics from the contents below to find out some fascinating and incredible facts about them!
- Animal senses
- Are you Paying Attention?
- Computer Science Unplugged
- Captain Cook's First New Zealand Voyage
- Captain Cook's Second New Zealand Voyage
- Crystals
- Glassblowers
- Incredible Vision
- Incredibly Boney Bones
- Life on the Rocky Shore is Hard!
- Light Metals Transporting the World
- Life on Mars
- Why did the Moa grow so large?
- What is Colour Blindness?
- Slime
- Sport and Exercise
- The Internet
- Antarctica
Captain Cook's First New Zealand Voyage
James Cook’s First Voyage of Discovery to New Zealand took place between 1769- 1770. During this time Cook and his crew sailed around New Zealand mapping the coastline, describing the soils, plants and animals and developing relationships with the local Maori people.
Interesting Facts
- A Tahitian chief accompanied Cook to act as an interpreter
- The youngest crew member, Nicholas Young was 12 years old
- Cook named New Zealand’s land features after important people and places in England and also after members of his crew
- Cook's charts from this voyage are so accurate that they are very similar to those made using modern mapping techniques