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.

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