James Cook

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

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Yes, James Cook had friends. He had people that also relied on him to do what they needed him to do when it came to keeping people safe.

He didn't.
James Cook did not find the great southern continent that was believed to exist. He found the east coast of Australia, a continent that was purported to have been discovered by the Portuguese in the 1500s, and officially recorded by the Dutch in the 1600s, but this was not the same as the "great southern land" that never actually existed.

There were six, James, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Joseph, George and Hugh

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He didn't: he claimed it for England. Because James Cook was English, he claimed the eastern half of the Australian continent for England, and named it New South Wales. The Dutch had named the western half New Holland, but not claimed it. The British sought to expand their Empire, and they could only do this by claiming lands which no other country had yet claimed.

The only way to travel to Antarctica in 1911 was by ship.

Mawson departed Hobart, heading for Macquarie Island (a sub-Antarctic island 1300 kilometres north of Antarctica), before heading for the Antarctic continent.

Captain Cook never sailed anywhere near Australia's western coast, so he had no opportunity to think anything of the Swan River. Dutch captain Willem de Vlamingh named the Swan River in 1697 because of the black swans he saw in abundance there. In 1826, Edmund Lockyer was sent to claim the western half of the Australian continent for Britain. Cook never ventured beyond the eastern coast.

James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he originally called the Sandwich Islands. Although the Cook Islands are named after him, Cook did not discover them, merely visiting them in 1773.

When James Cook initially explored and charted Australia's eastern coast, he was still a Lieutenant. He was promoted to captain following his successful charting New Zealand and Australia's east coast.

It took him from October 7th 1769 to 10th March 1770, but that includes a layover for maintenance of nearly four weeks.

Edit : So about 154 days or 5months and 3 days

Captain Cook lived in Whitby while he was an apprentice in ship building. He also sailed from Whitby when he discovered many parts of the world, including Hawaii and Australia.

Captain James Cook did not discover any continent.

In 1770, he found the eastern coast of Australia, but Australia as a continent had been discovered by the Portuguese about two hundred years before Cook.

Formal discoveries of Australia were made by the Dutch in the early 1600s.

James Cook was hired in 1766 by the Royal Geographic Society who sponsored Cook's first expedition to observe the transit of Venus in 1769. This journey was co-sponsored by the British Admiralty.

Cook's other voyages were also planned as scientific explorations and were commissioned and sponsored by George III of England and the Admiralty.

It is a common misconception that Captain Cook discovered Australia. He did not. The Australian continent had been populated by Aborigines for thousands of years, and visited by numerous Asian traders and, later, explorers since the first known European visitor in 1616. Captain James Cook was the first European to sight and chart the eastern coast of Australia, which he did between April and August 1770.

Captain Cook was a ships' captain, not a cook.

James Cook was the son of a farm labourer, and held no great ambitions, being apprenticed in a grocer/haberdashery when he was 16. Lack of aptitude in the trade led his employer to introduce Cook to local shipowners, who took him on as a merchant navy apprentice. Here he was educated in algebra, trigonometry, navigation, and astronomy, which later set Cook up to command his own ship.