Which difficulty increased when Captain Cook circumnavigated New Zealand's islands?

💡 Explanation

Determining longitude required accurate timekeeping unavailable until Harrison's chronometers; therefore, Cook relied on dead reckoning and lunar distances, a complex angular measurement method over vast unknown areas rather than methods used later when innovations were ready.

• Which outcome occurs when a qanat experiences sedimentation?
• Which navigation error significantly increased risk, encountered when Vikings relied primarily solely on dead reckoning?
• Which limitation arose when complex astrolabes employed smaller alidades?
• Which mechanism limited early Mesopotamian bronze tools' application in large-scale stone quarrying during ziggurat construction?
• Within Aztec chinampa agriculture, which risk increased when dense maize planting reduced sunlight?
• Which weathering outcome occurred in Mughal pietra dura?