This English sea captain & his crew discovered the natives surfing in Hawaii in the 1770s
He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific 
Ocean in ... As he progressed on his voyages of discovery he surveyed and 
named .... to England via Batavia (modern Jakarta, Indonesia where many in his 
crew... [DOC] [TLE] Third voyage of James Cook - Wikipedia [PAR] Ostensibly James Cook's third and final voyage was to return Omai, a young man 
from Raiatea to his homeland, but the Admiralty used this as a cover for their plan 
to send Cook on a voyage to discover the Northwest Passage.