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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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What did James cook do in Canada?
Despite popular opinion, Captain Cook neither discovered nor named Australia.
However, he is significant in Australian history for having been the first to map the eastern coast of the continent.
Prior to Cook's arrival in 1770, Australia was known variously as "New Holland" and the "Great Unknown Southern Land" by the Dutch and Portuguese traders who had passed by the continent on their way to Asia. The first English sea captain to visit Australia, William Dampier, was most unimpressed by the barren landscape of the northwest, and returned only negative reports to England.
It was not until James Cook's successful voyage which involved charting the eastern coast of Australia, that New South Wales was seen as a viable proposition for a convict colony. In particular, it was endorsed by Sir Joseph Banks, the influential botanist who travelled with Cook. Banks was one of three botanists aboard Cook's ship "The Endeavour", and he was a passionate advocate of British settlement and colonisation of the Australian continent. It was largely upon Cook's and Banks's recommendation that Australian ultimately was colonised by the British, and not by another power later. Because of Cook's positive report to England was enough to convince the authorities that it was worth colonising the continent - and so the history of white settlement in Australia began.
On Cook's second journey which lasted from 1772-1775, he commanded the 'Resolution' and the 'Adventure' on an expedition to the South Pacific, disproving the rumour of a great southern continent, exploring the Antarctic Ocean, New Hebrides and New Caledonia.
On his third journey, commencing in 1776, Cook visited and named the Sandwich Islands, now known as Hawaii, and unsuccessfully sought a northwest passage along the coast of North America. On his way back to England, he stopped at Hawaii again. After a boat was stolen by natives, he and his crew had an altercation with the Hawaiians. On 14 February 1779, Cook was speared by Hawaiian natives.
What did Captain Cook find on his journey to Australia?
He didn't. Contrary to popular belief, Captain James Cook did not discover Australia.
The first non-Aboriginal people to visit Australia were the Malay and Indian traders, from the Indonesian islands. They collected sea slugs from the Australian coast to trade with China, where the slugs were a prized delicacy.
The Portuguese are believed to have discovered Australia in the 1500s, but all records of their visit/s have been lost.
Willem Jansz/Janszoon was 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. However, he believed the Cape to be part of New Guinea, from whence he crossed the Arafura Sea, so Australia was not charted as a separate continent at that stage.
In 1616, Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog sailed too far whilst trying out Henderik Brouwer's recently discovered route from the Cape of Good Hope to Batavia, via the Roaring Forties. Reaching the western coast of Australia, he landed at Cape Inscription on 25 October 1616. His is the first known record of a European visiting Western Australia's shores.
The first Englishman to visit Australia was William Dampier, in 1688.
James Cook (not a captain at this stage) charted the eastern coast and claimed it in the name of the British in 1770, and for this reason, Cook is often wrongly credited with discovering Australia. Captain 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.
In what year did Captain Cook land in Australia?
James Cook never settled in Australia. After charting the eastern coast of the continent in 1770, he returned to England. During his life, he made two more significant voyages, but his home remained in England.
yes he traveled with a crew of about 80 and a team of 11 scientists, including: Charles Green, Assistant to the Astronomer Royal, and Sir Joseph Banks, a young man of the Royal Geographic Society who supplied numerous scientific instruments of his own.
How big was Captain Cook's ship?
Length extreme: End bowsprit to end stern 143'5" (43.7 m)
Length overall: 109'3" (33.3 m)
Length waterline: 101'5" (30.92 m)
Beam: 29'2" (8.89 m)
Depth in hold: 11'4" (3.45 m)
Draught: 11'10" (3.6 m)
These measurements are taken from the replica which is described as being a faithful reconstruction.
What route did James Cook take?
The first voyage that Captain James Cook made, took him from Plymouth, England to Tahiti. He departed Plymouth and crossed the Atlantic Ocean. When he reached Cape Horn, he went around it and reached Tahiti.
What president was famous for his cooking?
its one of these A.James Carter B.James Garfield C.Dwhite D. Eisenhower D.Calvin Coolidge
Did James cook meet any aboriginal groups?
James Cook, the British explorer, had above average diplomatic skills. He was able to establish and maintain solid, friendly relationships with the aboriginals.
What danger did both captain James Cook and James Clark Ross face?
The both sailed far enough South, that Antarctic ice floes were a danger, especially to their wooden ships.
Did Australia have buildings on it when it was discovered?
No. The only inhabitants of Australia were the nomadic Aborigines, who had no need of buildings. Their only shelter was bark "humpies", caves or cliff overhangs.
What are the people called who lived in Cook Island?
They are called Cook Islanders. They are sometimes called a Rarotongan because it is the most populous island in the Cook Islands. In countries like New Zealand where there are many Cook Islanders, they call themselves, or are referred to by others as a Cookie (short for Cook Islander), or Raro (Short for Rarotongan).
What country did James Cook sail around most in 1770?
James Cook sailed up the eastern coast of Australia in 1770.
the harsh weather, food, and finishing the race
The earliest settlements in the Hawaiian Islands were made by Polynesians who traveled to Hawaii. On January 18, 1778, Captain James Cook and his crew, while attempting to discover the Northwest Passage between Alaska and Asia, found the Hawaiian islands. He named them the "Sandwich Islands". It became a US state on August 20, 1959.
Why did the ruffians rebel against the English captain before coming to the island?
They did not trust the captain I think
What did James Cook look like?
=He always wore an old-fashioned white wig, so we do not know what his hair was like.==He didn't wear glasses and had pale white skin.=
What year did Captain Cook leave England?
James Cook was not a captain when he left England on his first mission of exploration. Lieutenant James Cook departed Plymouth, England on 25 August 1768.
Endeavored means tried to do something or made an effort to do something.
One explorer discovered a continent and was later killed by the tribes of the same continent?
Captain James Cook is generally credited with the discovery of Australia in 1770, but in reality he only discovered and mapped the east coast. Others beat him to it by as much as 150 years or more. Captain Cook was killed by the natives of an Hawaiian island as a result of an "incident" in 1779 - so he was not killed by natives of the Australian continent at all.
