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This is a list of places named after Captain James Cook (1728–1779), the British explorer. ... Captain Cook, Hawaii, United States; Geographic features
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.
Chart of New Zealand explored 1769 and 1770 by Lieut. James Cook, commander of his majesty's barque Endeavour. This is a list of New Zealand places named by James Cook. Cook was the first European navigator to circumnavigate and chart the archipelago.
Captain Cook (book) Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum; Captaincookia; A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern Hemisphere; Charles Clerke; James Colnett; James Cook Collection: Australian Museum; Cook Island, Tierra del Fuego; Cook Park, Orange; Elizabeth Batts Cook; Cooks ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of Australian places named by James Cook. James Cook was the first navigator to chart most of the Australian east coast, one of the last major coastlines in the world unknown to Europeans at the time. Cook named many bays, capes and ...
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 ...
The first voyage of James Cook was a discovery expedition to the south Pacific Ocean, with aims of observing the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun [1] and seeking evidence of the alleged southern territories, named by that time as Terra Australis Incognita. [2]
Captain James Cook's map of New Zealand, showing a mixture of Māori names and names Cook bestowed himself. Most New Zealand place names have a Māori or a British origin. Both groups used names to commemorate notable people, events, places from their homeland, and their ships, or to describe the surrounding area.