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The Cook Landing Site in Waimea on Kauaʻi island in Hawaii, is where Captain James Cook landed at the mouth of the Waimea River on January 20, 1778. Cook was the first European reported to have sighted the Hawaiian Islands, [4] and the January 20 landfall on southwestern Kauaʻi was his first arrival upon Hawaiian soil.
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 ...
Annual re-enactment of James Cook's visit in Cooktown, Queensland. In 1959, the Cooktown Re-enactment Association first performed a re-enactment of Cook's 1770 landing at the site of modern Cooktown, Australia, and have continued the tradition each year, with the support and participation of many of the local Guugu Yimithirr people.
The Cook Monument, unveiled in 1906, was intended to mark the location where James Cook first landed on the islands in 1769 during his first voyage. [2] The granite obelisk monument is now "barely within sight or scent of the sea", as the shoreline was altered by land reclamation as part of expansion at the port of nearby Gisborne . [ 1 ]
Captain Cook Birthplace Museum; Captain Cook Memorial Light; Captain Cook Memorial Museum; Captain Cook State Recreation Area; Captain Cooks Monument; Captain James Cook Historic Site; Captain James Cook Memorial; Cook Inlet; Cook Landing Site (Waimea) Cook's Landing Place, Town of Seventeen Seventy
Kurnell is the place where Lieutenant James Cook and his crew landed on 29 April 1770, making first contact with the Gweagal people, the original inhabitants of the area, whilst navigating his way up the East Coast of Australia on Endeavour. [2] Two Gweagal men challenged the landing and gestured with their spears.
The park is dedicated to the historic events of Captain Cook's landing nearby. A timeline of Waimea and Western influence are documented on plaques in the park. Captain James Cook [ 3 ] was the first European reported to have sighted the Hawaiian Islands, and the January 20 landfall on southwestern Kauai was his first arrival upon Hawaiian soil.
The town is built on the site of the second landing in Australia by James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour in May 1770 (and their first landing in what is now the state of Queensland). Originally known as Round Hill – after the creek it sits on – the name was changed on 24 June 1936 after the town allotments were surveyed in 1935 to ...