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Which English explorer discovered the South Sandwich Islands and South Georgia Island in the Atlantic Ocean?

Which English explorer discovered the South Sandwich Islands and South Georgia Island in the Atlantic Ocean? Correct Answer James Cook

Between July 1772 and July 1775 James Cook successfully completed the first west-east circumnavigation in high latitudes, charted Tonga and Easter Island during the winters, and discovered New Caledonia in the Pacific and the South Sandwich Islands and South Georgia Island in the Atlantic Ocean.

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