James Cook - Wikipedia
WEBCaptain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
James Cook | Biography, Accomplishments, Ship, Voyage Route, …
WEBJames Cook was a British naval captain, navigator, and explorer who sailed the seaways and coasts of Canada and conducted three expeditions to the Pacific Ocean (1768–71, 1772–75, and 1776–79), ranging from the Antarctic ice fields to the Bering Strait and from the coasts of North America to Australia and New Zealand.
First voyage of James Cook - Wikipedia
WEBThe first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which James Cook was the commander.
How Captain Cook became a contested national symbol - The …
WEBMay 10, 2018 · In 1770 Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook, on a scientific mission for the British Navy, anchored in a harbour he first called Stingray Bay.
Cook's First Voyage - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural …
WEBFirst Voyage of Captain James Cook. (1768 - 1771) James Cook’s first voyage circumnavigated the globe in the ship Endeavour, giving the botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander the opportunity to collect plants from previously unexplored habitats.
10 Things You May Not Know About Captain James Cook
WEBApr 29, 2015 · 10 Things You May Not Know About Captain James Cook. Two hundred forty-five years after he landed in Australia, learn 10 surprising facts about the explorer who vowed to sail “as far as I think...
The First Union Flag (1770 - 1801) - Australian National Flag ...
WEBOn 22 August, 1770, the First Union Flag was raised on Possession Island by Lt James Cook, RN. In so doing he proclaimed the whole of the eastern portion of Australia as British territory which eventually helped facilitate modern settlement of Australia.
James Cook – man, mariner, myth or monster - The Australian …
WEB2020 marks the two-hundred-and-fifty-year anniversary of James Cook’s epic voyage along the east coast of Australia in 1770. The Australian nation will be torn between Anglo celebrations and Aboriginal mourning over James Cook’s so-called discovery of Australia. Any Aboriginal understanding recognises that following Cook’s planting of a ...
Union Flag 1788-1801
WEBCaptain James Cook flew the first ever flag as we know it on Australian soil when he took possession of the east coast of Australia (in the name of King George III) at Botany Bay on 29 April 1770. The flag flown was, of course, the Union Flag of Great Britain.
James Cook - His First Voyage - Classic History
WEBJun 14, 2016 · Cook does land to raise the British flag, taking possession of the continent for King George, as well as to catch fish and replenish what supplies they could. Banks and his men collect many samples of plants and birds, and the giant gum trees, but all attempts to learn anything from the aborigines fails.