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.

On 14 February 1779, English explorer Captain James Cook was killed as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii, after the native Hawaiians had taken a longboat from Cook's expedition in what they assumed was a trade exchange.

5 days ago · James Cook, British naval captain, navigator, and explorer who sailed the seaways and coasts of Canada and the Pacific Ocean. Cook set new standards in navigation, cartography, the care of crew at sea, and in the application of science at sea.

None of Captain Cook's children married and had children of their own. So there are no descendants of Captain James Cook. There are many people alive who can claim that they are related to Captain Cook, but they are all descendants …

Oct 21, 2020 · Captain James Cook died in Hawaii in 1779, but his influence and legacy are still felt throughout the Pacific Northwest. (Library of Congress) Explorer Captain James Cook is remembered by many...

The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. The aims were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus from Tahiti and to seek evidence of the postulated Terra Australis Incognita or "undiscovered southern land".

May 30, 2022 · Between 1768 and 1779, British Captain James Cook undertook three historic voyages in the Pacific before he was killed in Hawaii. His navigational diaries were so startlingly accurate that they were used well into the 20th century.

Chapter Four covers this visit, by dividing the exploration into eight sub-sections. In the third part, the reader sails with Cook as he crosses the Antarctic Circle in search of the Southern Continent. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the three occasions on which Cook crosses this latitude.

She was Vancouver's Discovery, and she was well illustrated by the artist E W Cooke (sic), whose sketch of her appeared in his book Shipping and Craft published in 1829; but the date of the sketch is given as 1825, the same year as Jenks's report. 12 Cooke identified her as Cook's Discovery, which as we have already seen, was broken up in 1797.

Captain James Cook discovered, or rather rediscovered the Hawaiian Islands (Which he named the Sandwich Islands) basically through luck. The Pacific Ocean is vast, extremely vast, in fact is the earths largest geological feature.