 OK, so why do we care about Captain Cook? What's important about him? What should you know about his voyages? Very quickly, I'm going to run through some of his firsts, things that he observed first or his voyages encountered first. Starting with this thing, so his voyages were the very first to make use of this amazing navigational tool called the chronometer, which was many decades in the making. I know there's a lot of Explorers Club