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TOBIAS See also:FURNEAUX (1735-1781) , See also:English navigator, was See also:born at Swilly near See also:Plymouth on the 21st of See also:August 1735 . He entered the royal See also:navy, and was employed on the See also:French and See also:African coasts and in the See also:West Indies during the latter See also:part of the Seven Years' See also:War (1760–1763) . He served as second See also:lieutenant of the " See also:Dolphin " under See also:Captain See also:Samuel See also:Wallis on the latter's voyage See also:round the globe (August 1766–May 1768); was made a See also:commander in See also:November 1771; and commanded the " Ad-venture " which accompanied Captain See also:Cook (in the " See also:Resolution ") in Cook's second voyage . On this expedition See also:Furneaux was twice separated from his See also:leader (See also:February 8–May 19, 1773; See also:October 22, 1773–See also:July 14, 1774, the date of his return to See also:England) . On the former occasion he explored a See also:great part of the See also:south and See also:east coasts of See also:Tasmania, and made the earliest See also:British See also:chart of the same . Most of his names here survive; Cook, visiting this See also:shore-See also:line on his third voyage, confirmed Furneaux's See also:account and delineation of it (with certain See also:minor criticisms and emendations), and named after him the islands in See also:Banks Straits, opening into See also:Bass's Straits, and the See also:group now known as the See also:Low See also:Archipelago . After the " See also:Adventure " was finally separated from the " Resolution " off New See also:Zealand in October 1773, Furneaux returned See also:home alone, bringing with him Omai of Ulaietea . This first South See also:Sea Islander seen in the British Isles returned to his home with Cook in 1776–1777 . Furneaux was made a captain in 1775, and commanded the " Syren " in the British attack of the 28th of See also:June 1776 upon See also:Charleston, South Carolina . His successful efforts to introduce domestic animals and potatoes into the South Sea Islands are worthy of See also:note . He died at Swilly on the 19th of See also:September 1781 . See See also:Hawkesworth's Narrative of Wallis' Voyage; Captain Cook's Narrative of his Second Voyage; also T .
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