The organization has scheduled an event on Wednesday in Providence, Rhode Island to detail the findings.
As the Endeavour`s captain, Cook commanded the first group of Europeans to set eyes on New Zealand and Australia`s Great Barrier Reef. Later in his career, on a different vessel, he led the first circumnavigation of Antarctica, disproving the theory at the time of a habitable southern continent called Terra Australis.
The Endeavour was later re-commissioned as the Lord Sandwich, which was its name when it was scuttled during the August 1778 Battle of Rhode Island by a British commander aiming to block the harbor.
The retired U.S. space shuttle Endeavour was named after the famed sailing vessel.
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