What are facts about about James Cook?

Answer 1

• James Cook was the son of a farm labourer, and held no great ambitions: he was apprenticed in a grocer/haberdashery when he was 16.
• Cook charted the east coast of Australia - then known as New Holland - and claimed it for Great Britain under the name of New South Wales.
• When Cook crossed the Antarctic Circle in 1774, it was the farthest south and closest to the South Pole that any known person had ever been.
• James Cook died on Valentines Day, speared by Hawaiian natives.
• James cook had 6 children but 2 died. His wife outlived all of their children.

Answer 2

James was anexplorer, navigator and cartographer

First to map Newfoundland

First recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager

Joined the Royal Navy in 1755

Cook died in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians

Cook was born in the village of Marton in Yorkshire

He was baptized in the local church of St. Cuthbert's

In 1741, after 5 years schooling, he began work for his father

In 1745, when he was 16, Cook moved to the fishing village of Staithes

Apprenticed as a shop boy to grocer

Cook applied himself to the study of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, navigation and astronomy.

Cook married Elizabeth Batts

The couple had six children: James, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Joseph, George and Hugh

Became the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle in recorded history

Discovered several islands, including New Caledonia, and charted the New Hebrides, the Marquesas, and Easter Island

Cook and his men ate carrot marmalade and sauerkraut to prevent scurvy, a disease caused by prolonged vitamin C deficiency.

Two of Cooks children died when they were one.

He had six children, but two died.