The Royal Society awarded Captain James Cook a medal following his 1772-1775 circumnavigation of the globe because ________.
A) he was the first European to set foot on the Hawaiian Islands
B) he proved that terra australis was a myth
C) he ensured that nobody died from scurvy on the voyage
D) he found a place for Britain's convicts in Botany Bay
E) he found the Northwest Passage
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