What were James cooks failures?

Answer 1

James Cook's successes include:

• successful observations and scientific records of the transit of Venus from Tahiti
• circumnavigation and charting of New Zealand
• charting of the eastern coast of Australia, and exploration of some of the bays - in this, he was partially successful because it was not the great unknown continent that England hoped for: the continent had already been discovered, some 150 years earlier.
• becoming the first known European to cross the Antarctic Circle
• discovery of the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)

Failures:

• an ignominious death at the hand of the Hawaiian natives