James Cook, William Parker and Michael Lane carried out the first detailed survey of the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador between 1762 and 1767. Cook was one of three English hydrographers —the others were J.F.W. DesBarres and Samuel Holland— who produced accurate maps of the North Atlantic coast of the British Empire in America.
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