James Cook

Captain Cook was not eaten by the Hawaiian natives, he was given an elaborate, if not grotesque, funerary ritual involving disembowelment similar to the Egyptian Pharoahs, the flesh removed by baking, and the bones cleaned similar to European Saints. His heart was divided among the tribal chiefs and eaten, and his bones distributed among tribal chiefs around the island. All this to preserve him as a religious icon, as the natives had held him in high regard, even though they had killed him. Some of Cook's remains were returned to the crew for burial at sea. The story of him being eaten by the natives is very unlikely as the Hawaiian natives of that time did not indulge cannibalism.

They lived the same way they did after his death: they happily lived off the resources of the island, unaffected by European influences.

No. Cook did not kill any of the Aborigines. This occurred later with European settlement, after 1788.

He wanted to prove that you can travel to Antarctica, without freezing.

He worked for England.

I believe James Cook encountered the Maori tribe, but I don't know if that was in Alta California.

No one on the Endeavour died of scurvy due to Cook giving people with scurvy, concentrated orange and lemon juice

The Cook Islands, situated in the South Pacific, are named after Captain James Cook. He landed here in 1773 and again visited these islands in 1777. The Cook Islands consist of about 18 islands.

We lived great. We didnt need anyone coming to our land teaching us anything. We already knew how to get food and survive we did perfectly fine without all you.

Captain James Cook served in the British Royal Navy.

He reached the south-eastern coast of the Australian continent on 19 April 1770 during his first voyage.

James Cook claimed the eastern third of the continent known only as New Holland at the time. He was not on an island, but was on the mainland when he claimed the eastern third for the British Empire as New South Wales.

That would be 1770 ... hence the name ...

No. The king did not travel with James Cook.

Captain Cook was English. Captain James Cook; 7 November 1728 - 14 February 1779; was a British explorer.

No but Governor Arthur Phillip was speared. He was on a beach and a whale had been speared so there were a lot of Aboriginals there when he stretched his arms out in greeting an Aboriginal threw a spear at him. It went through his shoulder and Arthur Phillip survived

James Cook (not yet a captain) claimed New South Wales for Great Britain in 1770.

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The actor Jack o'Donell who plays James Cook in skins, was born on the 1st of August 1989 :)

No. He was murdered in Hawaii

Captain Cook's first journey to the eastern coast of Australia was in 1770. He charted and explored along the coast between April and August of that year, naming it New South Wales.

Captain James Cook invented may have used a navigational instrument called a sextant. The sextant was invented by John Bird, John Hadley or Thomas Godfrey:The first sextant was produced by John Bird in 1759. This is a very early example of his work now in the Nederlands Scheepvaart Museum in Amsterdam. The frame is mahogany with an ivory scale. It is so large and heavy that it needed a support that fitted into a socket on the observers belt.http://www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/Novemb00/H61iflan.htm

Around 1730, an English mathematician, John Hadley (1682--1744), and an American inventor, Thomas Godfrey (1704--1749), independently invented the sextant. The sextant provided mariners with a more accurate means of determining the angle between the horizon and the Sun, moon, or stars in order to calculate latitude.

Read more: Navigation at Sea, History of - important, system, marine, human http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Mi-Oc/Navigation-at-Sea-History-of.html#ixzz0hd9Z97Sd

Cook was the first British commander to circumnavigate the earth in a lone ship, he fed citrus fruit and sauerkraut to his crew to prevent scurvy, he obtained measurements necessary to calculate the size of the solar system, was the first European to discover the Hawaiian Islands but did not invent the sextant. It is unclear if CPT Cook invented anything but, he certainly produced exemplary navigational maps and was an unparalleled explorer.

Captain James Cook was not a convict. Convicts did not arrive in Australia until 18 years after Cook first charted the east coast.

James Cook explored many places, but I don't think he explored far enough North to prove the Northwest Passage.