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Captain James Cook

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/cook_james.shtml
a biography

http://members.tripod.com/~cuculus/cookbio1.html about his first voyage.

Also about the first voyage with a list of crew
http://www.cjbooks.demon.co.uk/newpage1.htm

http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/lucidcafe/library/95oct/jcook.html

Matthew Flinders
http://www.abc.net.au/navigators/captains/flinders.htm

http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/flinders-matthew.html

http://www.australianhistory.org/

http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/flinders/flinders.htm

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/

Dirk Hartog

http://members.iinet.net.au/~rchapman/SwanRvr/European/hartog.htm

http://www.dirkhartogisland.com/history.htm history of the island named after him

http://www.answers.com/topic/dirk-hartog

Paul Edmund de Strzelecki

http://www.clover.com.au/~polonet/witryny/strzelecki/sirpaul.html

http://www.poles.org/strzelecki.html

Douglas Mawson http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/AntexplMaw.htm

kidcyber pages about other explorers can be found in the index
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updated December 2007