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The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery. Vol. I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768–1771. Cambridge University Press. OCLC 223185477. Beaglehole, John Cawte (1974). The Life of Captain James Cook. A & C Black. ISBN 978-0-7136-1382-7. Blainey, Geoffrey (2020). Captain Cook's Epic Voyage: the strange quest for a missing ...
Alastair Cook (born 1984), English cricketer; Ephraim Cook (mariner) (1737–1821) Henry Cooke (composer) (c. 1616 – 1672), also known as Captain Cook, English composer, choirmaster and singer; Samuel H. Cook, Union officer of the American Civil War
Captain James Cook, FRS, RN (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European discovery of eastern Australia, Hawaii and undertook the first circumnavigation of New Zealand.
The Life of Captain James Cook. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804720090. "Leaves from an Old Diary". Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. No. 525. Edinburgh: William & Robert Chambers. 1874-01-17. pp. 46–48. Hamilton, James C. (2020). Captain James Cook and the Search for Antarctica. Pen and Sword History. ISBN 9781526753601. Boswell, James ...
Captain James Cook was educated at the school. The school was later converted to serve as the headquarters of the parish council . [ 1 ] In the late 20th century, it was converted into a museum , focusing on the life of Cook, and including a reconstruction of a schoolroom as it would have been in the mid 18th century.
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On 16 February 1768 the Royal Society petitioned King George III to finance a scientific expedition to the Pacific to study and observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the face of the sun to enable the measurement of the distance from the Earth to the Sun. [2] Royal approval was granted for the expedition, and the Admiralty elected to combine the scientific voyage with a confidential mission ...
HMS Discovery was the consort ship of James Cook's third expedition to the Pacific Ocean in 1776–1780. Like Cook's other ships, Discovery was a Whitby-built collier originally named Diligence when she was built in 1774. Purchased in 1775, the vessel was measured at 299 tons burthen. [1] Originally a brig, Cook had her changed to a full-rigged ...