James Cook

Captain Cook did not call Australia Australia. He gave the name of New South Wales to the eastern coast of the continent.

Matthew Flinders, who was the first known European explorer to circumnavigate the Australian continent in 1802, is credited with assigning the name 'Australia' to this continent although it did not immediately receive universal approval. He first proposed the name "Terra Australis" be adopted instead of "New Holland", the name by which the Dutch knew Australia, or "New South Wales", which Cook had named the eastern half when he claimed it for England. In 1814 when Flinders published his work 'A Voyage to Terra Australis', he used the term 'Australia' within the book. Around 1818, Governor Lachlan Macquarie, arguably the most influential man in Australia at the time, also requested that the name "Australia" be officially ascribed.

The name 'Australia' was formally adopted in 1824.

Captain Cook did not settle in New Zealand. He made three voyages to the Pacific and visited New Zealand on four separate occasions. He led the first British expedition to discover New Zealand and the first to set foot on new Zealand. Abel Tasman was the first European to sight New Zealand but did not land there. Captain James Cook was the first to circumnavigate and map New Zealand.

March, 1779

The state of Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Islands. They were designated as the Sandwich Islands from the English explorer Captain Cook back in 1778. Cook selected the name based on his superior who was named Sandwich.

Joseph Banks Rhine died in 1980.

Poverty bay was so named by James Cook in October 1769 because, as he wrote in his ship's log, "At 6 am we weigh'd and stood out of the bay which I have named Poverty Bay because it afforded us no one thing we wanted."

Simply put, this meant that Cook and his crew were unable to procure necessary food and water supplies at the Bay. The lack of opportunity to replenish provisions was largely due to the fact the Cook had to leave the area quickly, after an incident between his crew and the local people which left six Maori dead.

Captain Cook in "Mr Popper's Penguins" was the first penguin which was delivered to Mr Popper.

No. James Cook was unsuccessful in finding a northwest passage.

Captain Cook circumnavigated the world three times. Neither his children, nor his wife, ever sailed with him. He was killed by Hawaiian natives after an altercation over a boat on 14 February 1779. The botanist Sir Jospeh Banks sailed with Cook on his first journey, as did the Swedish and Finnish botanists Daniel Solander and Dr Herman Spöring. After Cook stopped at Tahiti, he was joined by a Tahitian chief, Tupaia, who wanted to travel, together with his boy-servant Tayeto. On Cook's third voyage, he was killed on the Sandwich islands (now Hawaii) after an altercation with the natives over a stolen boat.

Food and water on ships of the time of the Endeavour were kept on the lower decks. Foodstuffs were kept in large tea chests and wooden crates, while water was kept in wooden barrels.

No one did but a crocodile ate his hand

He spoke English. He was English.

Probably the major discovery of the explorer and sea captain James Cook was the islands of the Hawaiian chain. He was later killed in a battle with natives.

We have learned details of Captain James Cook's voyages because he kept a detailed captain's log, or journal, in which he meticulously documented his findings, inclduing drawings, charts and maps.

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Cook's second voyage lasted from 1772-1775. On this journey, he commanded the 'Resolution' and the 'Adventure' on an expedition to the South Pacific. Although he confirmed the existence of Australia (Tera Australis Incognita), he disproved the rumour of the expected great southern continent, which was supposed to be a uge landmass equivalent to Asia or North America. During this voyage, Cook also explored the Antarctic Ocean, New Hebrides and New Caledonia.

There was no King Edward to be told about Australia. Through the lifetime of James Cook, the monarchs of Great Britain were named George.

Cook was born during the reign of George I. Most of Cook's naval service, and all his Pacific expeditions, were during the reign of George III.

James Cook was born on 27 October 1728 in Marton in North Yorkshire, now part of Middlesbrough, England. He died in the Sandwich islands (now Hawaii) on 14 February 1779.

Hispaniola, canary islands, and North American islands (he was thinking that it was the west indies

Two ships, the Resolution and the Adventure left in July, 1772 and headed to Cape Town just in time for the southern summer. Captain Cook proceeded south from Africa and turned around after encountering large amounts of floating pack ice (he came within 75 miles of Antarctica). He then sailed to New Zealand for the winter and in summer proceeded south again past the Antarctic Circle (66.5° South). By circumnavigating the southern waters around Antarctica, he indisputably determined that there was no habitable southern continent. During this voyage he also discovered several island chains in the Pacific Ocean.

James Cook first landed in Australia in April 1770. He was then shipwrecked on the Great Barrier Reef in June 1770, and he spent some six weeks ashore.

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In June 1770, James Cook (not yet a captain) ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef near the mouth of what became the Endeavour River.