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Captain Cook and the 60,000 miles — a log book, not a coastline

The claim

“Cook sailed 60,000 miles along the ice wall and never found a way through.”

What is true

◆ Refutation The 60,000 miles is correct and worth conceding at once.

What is measured

Cook left the Cape of Good Hope in November 1772 and anchored there again in March 1775, having crossed his outbound track near the same cape. On a globe the Antarctic Circle is about 9,900 miles round, which at his own measured pace is 71 days of sailing. On the flat-Earth map the same circle is about 68,000 miles, which is 489 days, or 44 per cent of the entire voyage spent on that one lap and nothing else.

What would show this is wrong

a single continuous track in Cook’s logs running along the ice at one latitude for 60,000 miles, or a pace in those logs high enough to cover a 68,000-mile lap inside the 1,103 days the voyage lasted while also reaching Tahiti, Easter Island and New Zealand.

Sources

  1. Cook’s second voyage, 1772–1775: distance, purpose and the closing of the track. Three years and eight days, more than 60,000 miles logged, sent to settle whether Terra Australis existed; th link
  2. The three Antarctic Circle crossings, the furthest south, and Cook’s own words on the ice. Resolution first south of the Antarctic Circle on 17 January 1773 and twice more, the deepest on 3 link
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