Was any place named after James Cook?

Answer 1

• The Polynesian atolls knowns as the Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook.
• Cooktown, in northern Queensland, is named after Cook. It was where Cook and his crew spent two months repairing his ship, the Endeavour, after it ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
• James Cook University, in Townsville (Queensland) is also named after Cook.
• There are several small, uninhabited islands dotted around Australia's coastline, each called "Cook Island".
• Cook Strait lies between the North and South islands of New Zealand.
• New Zealand's highest mountain was named Mt Cook by the Europeans after James Cook. It is now Aoraki/Mt Cook, taking on its former Maori name as well.

Answer 2

Yes, there are actually several landmarks that have been named after Captain James Cook. A couple examples would be James Cook University in Townsville, and the Cook Strait, which lies between the North and South islands of New Zealand.

Answer 3

In April 1770, Captain James Cook named botany Bay. He initially named it Stingray Bay, after the large numbers of stingray he noted. The name was later changed to Botany Bay due to the vast numbers of new and unique botanical specimens noted by the ship's botanists, including Joseph Banks. Cook named Cape Solander and Cape Banks after Banks and Finnish botanist Daniel Solander. On 17 May 1770, he sighted and named the Glass House Mountains, which lie in what is now Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland. He named the series of volcanic plugs Glass House because they reminded him of Yorkshire's glass furnace chimneys. On 7 June 1770, four days after sighting the Whitsunday Passage off Queensland's coast, Captain James Cook sighted and named Palm Island. The island was named after the many cabbage tree palms growing there. Cook also named places in New Zealand. Among them is Kidnapper's Bay. On 15 October 1769, as the Endeavour was off the coast of the North Island, a group of Māori in a canoe came alongside the Endeavour, and negotiated a trade of fresh fish. Tayeto was the servant boy of a Tahitian chief named Tupaia, who wanted to travel with Cook. As Tayeto made his way to the canoe to accept the fish, he was grabbed by the Māori, who paddled off at top speed with the servant boy. Cook's crew fired on the canoe, killing one Māori. Tayeto leapt overboard and was picked up by the Endeavour. Because of this event, Cook named the area Kidnapper's Bay.

Answer 4

Yes.

• The Polynesian atolls knowns as the Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook.
• Cooktown, in northern Queensland, is named after Cook. It was where Cook and his crew spent two months repairing his ship, the Endeavour, after it ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
• James Cook University, in Townsville (Queensland) is also named after Cook.
• There are several small, uninhabited islands dotted around Australia's coastline, each called "Cook Island".
• Cook Strait lies between the North and South islands of New Zealand.
• New Zealand's highest mountain was named Mt Cook by the Europeans after James Cook. It is now Aoraki/Mt Cook, taking on its former Maori name as well.

Answer 5

after his father James Cook