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Captain Cook is a 1972 book about Captain Cook by Alistair MacLean. [1] It was a rare non fiction work from MacLean who wrote it out of his great admiration for Cook. [2] [3]In 1976 Maclean's second wife Mary formed a company with producer Peter Snell, Aleelle Productions, who aimed to make movies based on MacLean novels including Golden Gate, Bear Island, The Way to Dusty Death and Captain ...
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.
James Burney (13 June 1750 – 17 November 1821) was an English rear-admiral, who accompanied Captain Cook on his last two voyages. He later wrote two books on naval voyages and a third on the game of whist .
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]
Researchers at the Australian National Maritime Museum said they have found evidence that a shipwreck located in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, is the remains of the HMS Endeavour, a British Royal ...
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
British explorer Captain Cook, who was in Newfoundland in 1766 witnessed the solar eclipse of Aug. 5 while conducting astronomical observations and called the place Eclipse Island. On Monday, the ...
Cooks' Cottage, also known as Captain Cook's Cottage, [7] is located in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, Australia.The cottage was constructed in 1755 in the English village of Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, by the parents of Captain James Cook, James and Grace Cook, [8] and was brought to Melbourne in 1934 by the Australian philanthropist Sir Russell Grimwade.