Over the course of the next five months, Cook cruised northward along the Alaskan coast, mapping key features but finding no continental passage. With Cook were two Englishmen who would later captain their own ships and leave their own names on Pacific charts, Midshipman George Vancouver and Master William Bligh. Together they cruised the Alexander Archipelago and made the entire circuit around the Gulf of Alaska, naming Cross Sound, Mount Fairweather, and Prince William Sound in the process. Around the Kenai Peninsula they sailed before encountering a broad bay that Vancouver would later name
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