How did captain cook become a explorer?

He helped other explorers

Captain Cook was English. Captain James Cook; 7 November 1728 - 14 February 1779; was a British explorer.

because he discovered Australia.

Captain James Cook was the first European explorer to reach the Hawaiian Islands in 1778.

Captain Cook is famous for being an important explorer. Cook explored large areas of the South Pacific and was killed by natives in Hawaii.

Sea explorer and naval captain James Cook died in 1779.

No. James Cook was an explorer of the eighteenth century. He was fifty when he was killed.

Captain Cook and Captain Hook are two different people. Captain Cook was a real explorer who charted lands such as New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. Captain Hook is a fictitious character from Peter Pan.

Captain Cook, he discovered Australia.

Captain James Cook was a captain for the royal navy and made many maps of Newfoundland. He was born in Marton in 1728. He was also an avid explorer.

Captain James Cook did not discover Tasmania. It was the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman who first sighted the island on November 24,1642.

It was Captain James Cook.

Captain Cook was born on November 7, 1728. James Cook was a cartographer, Naval commander, and explorer. He is known for being the first European to have contact with Australia.

James Cook became captain in 1775, at age 47, and barely four years before he died.

Captain James Cook was an Englishman i.e. He was from England

Captain James Cook 1953

Captain James Cook is believed to be the first European explorer to discover Norfolk Island, doing so on 10 October 1774.

There is no answer to this question. It is a common misconception that Captain James Cook (or Lieutenant, as he was then) of England discovered Australia. He did not. Australia was actually formally discovered by Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog in 1616. British explorer Captain Cook was the first to sight and chart Australia's eastern coast. However, Captain Cook did discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he originally called the Sandwich Islands.

Captain Cook was a ships' captain, not a cook.

James Cook was the first European explorer to circumnavigate and chart the coastline of New zealand.

I would have to say that it was Captain James Cook.

James Cook did not become a cook. He was an important ship's captain whose exploration contributed significantly to the knowledge of islands and continents. It just happens that his last name was "Cook" in same way that most people with the name "Smith" are not actually blacksmiths.

No, Captain Cook never explored beyond the eastern seaboard and the seaward side of the Great Dividing Range. He was a sea explorer, not an overland explorer. He had no idea of what actually lay inland beyond the Great Dividing Range.

It is said that Matthew Flinders was inspired by the thought of adventure after reading the novel "Robinson Crusoe". He was also inspired by the journals of Captain James Cook.

No, he was British, although he did explore Australia (which may count as him being an Australian explorer depending on how you read the question).