James Cook

Sir Joseph Banks was the English botanist who accompanied Cook on his voyage to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia. While in Australia, Sir Joseph Banks, and the Swedish and Finnish botanists Daniel Solander and Dr Herman Spöring made the first major collection of Australian flora, describing many species new to science.

Banks was a passionate advocate of British settlement and colonisation of the Australian continent, as suggested by the name of Botany Bay. Banks is credited with the classification and description of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa, and the genus named after him, Banksia. He is also the one who recommended that the new colony be established at Botany Bay.

The eastern coast of Australia was/is characterised by bushland which indicated to Cook that it was fertile country, unlike the countryside that had been explored in the west to that date. There were numerous river mouths, indicating sufficient fresh water, and also large bays suitable for ships.

One of the worst conditions to strike sailors on long voyages was scurvy. Scurvy was the result of insufficient vitamins, due largely to the lack of fresh food.

James Cook insisted his crew eat sauerkraut because it had Vitamin C, a vital component for warding off scurvy. Sauerkraut, or pickled cabbage, could be kept for a long period of time, yet retain its Vitamin C.

Captain James Cook was killed on his third journey while returning to England in 1779. He had already visited the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) on his outward journey where, due to an unusual combination of circumstances, he was perceived to be a certain god returning from across the sea. The natives revered him and treated him exceptionally well, and when they saw him off, it was with all the ceremonial pomp they reserved for their most highly honoured gods.

Cook then returned to Hawaii on his return trip to England, but this was perhaps his biggest mistake. For a start, his 'god' persona was not supposed to return, and his return caused some suspicions among the natives that he was perhaps not who they had thought he was. In trying to recover one of the ship's boats, which had been stolen by Polynesian islanders, or possibly while they were trying to send his boats away from the island again, Cook was attacked and killed by the natives, using spears, on the beach at Kealakekua Bay in Hawaii. The date of Cook's death was 14 February 1779.

There are reports that he was cannibalised, but cannibalism was not actively practised in Hawaii at this time. It seems his body was prepared in an unusual ritual, which may have seemed like cannibalism to those of his crew who witnessed it. Because he had originally been regarded as a god by the natives, his heart was divided between tribal chiefs and eaten. his hands were stuffed with salt to preserve them, whilst many of his bones were placed around the island, given to other significant tribal chiefs. His remains were then returned to his crew in dignified fashion, with a cloak of white and black feathers, where they were placed in a small coffin and buried at sea.

Yes; James Cook is believed to be the first European to actually land on New Zealand soil. He was not, however, the first European to discover New Zealand - that was achieved by Abel Tasman in 1642.

James rediscovered and discovered so many cultures that people thought he was boss and couldn't defeat him.

Historians disagree on whether Cook was cannibalised or not.

There are reports that, upon Cook's death, he was cannibalised, but cannibalism was not actively practised in Hawaii at this time.

It seems his body was prepared in an unusual ritual, which may have seemed like cannibalism to those of his crew who witnessed it. Because he had originally been regarded as a god by the natives, his heart was divided between tribal chiefs and eaten. his hands were stuffed with salt to preserve them, whilst many of his bones were placed around the island, given to other significant tribal chiefs. What was left of his remains were then returned to his crew in dignified fashion, with a cloak of white and black feathers, where they were placed in a small coffin and buried at sea.

James Cook did not raise the British flag on the mainland of Australia. He planted the flag on Possession Island in Torres Strait on 22 August 1770, claiming the eastern coastline of Australia for Great Britain.

Cook's original mission was to observe the transit of Venus from the vantage point of Tahiti. He made appropriate scientific observations of this event.

Cook was then under secret orders to try to find the great unknown southern continent, and claim it for Britain. In so doing, he charted the eastern coastline of what he called "New South Wales" (now Australia), making extensive notes on the people, flora, fauna and prospective suitability for colonisation, and reported back to England.

Captain Cook was a captain and his full name was James Cook.

Captain James COOK, was approximately 6'2" or 184cm tall from all accounts and William Bligh's journal.

At the end of 1799, following his second trial on the charge of abetting the Irish Rebellion in 1798. He arrived in New South Wales on January 16, 1800.

Captain James Cook claimed New South Wales (the eastern coast of the Australian continent) in 1770, but he claimed New Zealand in 1769.

"He refused to allow cursing and the use of profanity aboard his ships, and personally conducted divine services for his crew on Sundays. He also carried a Bible with him wherever he went, which he obviously put to good use as many of the places he discovered bear Biblical names."

On 26 February 1606, Willem Jansz/Janszoon became the first recorded European to step foot on Australia's shores at the Pennefather River, near where the Queensland town of Weipa now stands, on the western shore of Cape York Peninsula.

Of course not!

He had the whole crew of his ship with him plus scientists such as Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander.

James Cook was born in Yorkshire England but moved to Ormesby. he then left home and worked on Staithes

James Cook ate normal food when it was available. This would include roasted meats and vegetables. He was keen to keep his crew healthy and free from scurvy, so when fresh foods were not available, he ensured the crew were fed sauerkraut or pickled cabbage, which is high in vitamin C. He also had lime juice.

Although William Dampier visited Australia (1699-1701) before James Cook (1768-1771) the first European to travel to Australia was Willem Janszoon who landed at Pennefather Creek near the current town of Weipa, Queensland February 16, 1606.

Australia was first discovered by captain James Cook.

Captain James Cook and the Aborigines could not communicate as they spoke completely different languages. There was no-one aboard the Endeavour who could even come close to translating the Aboriginal language.

Captain James Cook did not actually explore or set foot on Antarctica.

His connection with the continent was the fact that 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 1773 and again in 1774. Pack ice and the solid freezing of the ship's sails prevented further exploration of the region.

Kauai. (from Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands).