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James Cook
James Cook was a British explorer who achieved the first European contact with the Hawaiian Islands and the eastern coastline of Australia. He also holds the record for being the first person to circumnavigate New Zealand.
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Why would Botany Bay not make a good harbor?
After arriving at Botany Bay on 18 January 1788, Captain Arthur Phillips decided it was unsuitable for settlement because of the following: * a lack of fresh water * the timber was unsuitable for building * the soil was of poor quality * there was no safe, deep harbour Phillip then moved the First Fleet north to Port Jackson, where they arrived on 26 January 1788.
Was captain James cook captain of the first fleet if not what was he?
No. Captain Cook was the first European to sight the eastern coast of Australia in 1770, and it was on his recommendation that the continent was colonised.
However, Cook did not accompany the First Fleet as he was killed by Hawaiian natives in 1779, nine years prior to the First Fleet landing at Sydney Cove.
Was any place named after James Cook?
- 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.
Why did Captain James Cook explore Antarctica?
Captain Cook did not actually explore Antarctica. However, he became the first known European to cross the Antarctic Circle when he was sent again to discover if another great land lay east of Australia, in 1772-3. Pack ice and the solid freezing of the ship's sails prevented further exploration of the region.
What were James cooks failures?
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
What did captain cooks parents do four a job?
Captain Cooks father was a Scottish farm labourer, while his mother stayed at home and did what every other wife did back then. She raised her children, tended to the affairs of the house, cooked, cleaned and did anything else there was to keep her family happy.
What happened to Captain James Cook's ship in 1770?
James Cook commanded three ships, the HMS Bark Endeavour,the Resolution and the Adventure but it is unknown whether Cook had a favourite out of his ships.
Why did James Cook explore Northern California?
James Cook explored Alta, California. He was looking for the northwest passage around America. He also made landfall in Kauai, Hawaii and in Oregon.
Who first explored New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia?
Captain James Cook was the first European to both circumnavigate New Zealand and chart the eastern coast of Australia.
Tasmania and New Zealand had been visited but not circumnavigated by Dutch captain Abel Jansen Tasman in 1544. His charts exist today.
The east coast of Australia was charted earlier in 1523-4 by an expedition of three ships under command of Portuguese captain Mendonca from the Portuguese colony of Malacca. The mahogany ship which was seen in the 19th Century in the sandhills near Warrnambool in the west coast of Victoria may well be one of his caravels, and it is located at the western extent of the map.
His charts were lost when a tidal wave immersed the Casa da India in Lisbon in the 18th Century, however stolen copies were incorporated in the maps of the Dieppe mapmakers in the 1530s-1560s. These maps are extant today. One was given to Henry VIII as a wedding present by Anne of Cleves.
There is some slender evidence of Portuguese contact with New Zealand (in the Ruapuke wreck, the Tamil bell, the Wellington helmet and the Admiralty annotation of Cook Strait as Gulf of the Portuguese) however this remains speculative and there are no contemporary charts to support it, unless the attribution of the strangel-projecting Cape Fremose in the Dieppe Charts is taken as being New Zealand.
Captain cook was using a telescope to watch this cross the path of the sun?
James Cook (not yet a captain at this stage) was sent to observe the transit of Venus across the sun from the vantage point of Tahiti.
The transit of Venus occurs when the planet Venus passes directly between the Earth and the Sun, and its unlit side is visible as a small black circle moving across the face of the Sun. Transits of Venus occur in pairs, eight years apart, approximately once every 120 years.
Cook's ship, the 'Endeavour', departed England in August 1768, and arrived in Tahiti in time for his crew and scientists to set up their instrumentation necessary to observe and report on the transit, which occurred on 3 June 1769.
What and where was James Cook's first mission?
James Cook's first voyage was to observe the transit of Venus across the sun from the vantage point of Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean.
After this, whilst still on this mission, Cook had orders to head south and west and secretly search for the unknown Great Southern Continent, or Terra Australis Incognitabefore other countries, especially France, reached it first.
What did James Cook do when he 'discovered' Australia?
Contrary to popular belief, Captain James Cook did not discover Australia.
After the Aborigines and then the Macassans, the discoverer of Australia is regarded as
Willem Jansz/Janszoon, a Dutchman who was seeking new trade routes and trade associates. He became the first recorded European to step foot on Australia's shores on the western shore of Cape York Peninsula, on 26 February 1606.
James Cook was on a scientific expedition to observe the transit of Venus from Tahiti when he continued west, coming across New Zealand and then continuing on until he reached the Australian mainland and charted the Eastern coast. Cook was the first European to sight and chart the eastern coast of Australia, which he did between April and August 1770, naming the land New South Wales. He explored much of the eastern Australian coast on behalf of Britain, which was looking to found new colonies given the looming probable independence of the American colonies. Cook took extensive notes of what he called New South Wales, eventually recommending the continent as an English penal colony.
Why did Captain James Cook go to Tahiti?
James Cook travelled to Tahiti on a scientific mission to observe the transit of Venus as the islands offered the best vantage point.
James Cook explored for England, claiming Australia's eastern coast for England and naming it New South Wales.
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In which captain cook describes aboriginal people?
From what I have said of the Natives of New-Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far more happier than we Europeans; being wholy unacquainted not only with the superfluous but the necessary conveniencies so much sought after in Europe, they are happy in not knowing the use of them. They live in a Tranquillity which is not disturb'd by the Inequality of Condition: The Earth and sea of their own accord furnishes them with all things necessary for life; they covet not Magnificent Houses, Houshold-stuff &Ca. they live in a warm and fine Climate and enjoy a very wholsome Air, so that they have very little need of Clothing and this they seem to ^be fully sencible of, for many to whome we gave Cloth &Ca. to, left it carlessly upon the Sea beach and in the woods as a thing they had no manner of use for. In short they seem'd to set no Value upon any thing we gave them, ^nor would they ever part with any thing of their own for any one article we could offer them; this, in my opinion argues that they think themselves provided with all the necessarys of Life and that they have no Superfluities -
Sir Joseph Banks died on 19 June 1820 at his home in London. Although the cause of his death was unknown, Banks did develop gout in his later years and this may well have contributed to his death. He was 77 years old.
Who discovered Hawaii and When?
Capt. James Cook of the British Navy discovered Hawaii on January 18, 1778 that was during the season of Hawaii that the god lono would come. And when capt. cook came they hawaiians thought he was lono one of the gods. Later Captain Cook soon departed, but he returned to the islands the next year and was killed. Hawaii became a way station in the 19th century.
How many years did James cook travel?
James Cook traveled from 1758 to 1780. If you count when he traveled in Canada it was 1755- 1780.
What was the reason for Captain James Cook's death?
He died when he was sailing the Sandwich Islands, (now known as Hawaii). And his bought was stolen by natives. He tried taking the chief hostage in order to get his boat back, then got into a fight and was stabbed to death.
