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Cook's landing at Botany Bay (Kamay), 1770 Captain Cook landing place plaque. Endeavour continued northwards along the coastline, keeping the land in sight with Cook charting and naming landmarks as he went. A little over a week later, they came across an extensive but shallow inlet, and upon entering it moored off a low headland fronted by ...
Cook's Landing Place is a heritage-listed site at Seventeen Seventy, Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. It is named after British explorer Lieutenant James Cook who landed there on 24 May 1770. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 27 March 1996. [1]
Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
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.
Four Aboriginal spears that were taken to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago were returned Tuesday to Australia's Indigenous community at a ceremony in Cambridge University. The ...
Apollo 15's command and service module CSM-112 was given the call sign Endeavour; astronaut David Scott explained the choice of the name on the grounds that its captain, Cook, had commanded the first purely scientific sea voyage, and Apollo 15 was the first lunar landing mission on which there was a heavy emphasis on science. [124]
The HMS Endeavour was a British Royal Navy vessel sailed by Captain Cook in 1778 ... first recording the transit of Venus in Tahiti and then charting the coasts of Australia and New Zealand in 1770.
Captain Cook's Landing Place monument. "According to tradition in the Cook Family MIDSHIPMAN ISAAC SMITH cousin of the wife of Captain James Cook R.N. afterwards an Admiral of the English Fleet was the first Englishman to land on this rock and on the shores of New South Wales. April 29 1770."