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Can you name the modern countries visited by Captain Cook?

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Year	Country	Notes
Sept. 1768		Landed at Madeira
Nov.-Dec. 1768		Landed at Rio de Janeiro
Jan.-Febr. 1769		Landed at Tierra del Fuego
April-Aug.1769
Oct. 1769-April 1770		Circumnavigated the islands
April-Aug. 1770		Charted the east coast
Sept. 1770-Jan. 1771
March 1771		Landed at Cape Town
April-May 1771
Aug. 1772		Landed at Madeira
Aug. 1772		Landed for supplies
Oct.-Nov. 1772		Landed at Cape Town
Feb.-May 1773		Both ships rendezvous at New Zealand
August 1773		Landed at Tahiti
Oct. 1773		Landed at the 'Friendly Islands'
Nov. 1773		Searching for the HMS Adventure
March 1774		Landed at Easter Island
March-June 1774
June 1774		Landed at the Cook Islands and Niue
June 1774		Return to the 'Friendly Islands'
July 1774		Visited Vatoa

Year	Country	Notes
July-Aug. 1774		Visited the 'New Hebrides'
Sept. 1774		Landed at New Caledonia
Oct. 1774		Landed at Norfolk Island
Oct. 1774		Landed for supplies
Dec. 1774-Jan. 1775		Landed at Tierra del Fuego
Jan. 1775		Landed at the South Sandwich Islands
March 1775		Landed at Cape Town
May 1775
July 1776		Landed at the Azores
Aug. 1776		Landed at the Canary Islands
Oct. 1776		Landed at Cape Town
Dec. 1776
Jan. 1777		Visited southern Australia and Tasmania
Feb.-April 1777		Landed at New Zealand and Cook Islands
July 1777		Landed for supplies
Aug.-Dec. 1777		Landed at Tahiti
Feb. 1778		Landed at Hawaii and the west coast
Feb. 1778
April-July 1778		Visited Alaska
Aug. 1778		Visited Kamchatka
Aug. 1778-Feb. 1779		Visited Alaska; killed in Hawaii

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