Cpt. James Cook - Quick facts
He was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy.
Cook was the first to map Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
He saw action in the Seven Years' War, and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec.
During the Seven Years' War, he served in North America as master of Pembroke.
He became the first recorded Europeans to have encountered its eastern coastline.
Cook commanded HMS Resolution on his second voyage from 1772-75.
Australian places named by James Cook
Point Hicks
Ram Head
Cape Howe
Cape Dromedary
Cape Byron
Mount Warning
Point Danger
Point Lookout
Morton Bay
Cape Morton
Glasshouse Bay
The Glass Houses
Cape Three Points
Point Stephens
Black Head
Port Stephens
Cape Hawke
Three Brothers
Smoakey Cape
Solitary Isles
Mount Dromedary
Bateman Bay
Double Island Point
Wide Bay
Indian Head
Sandy Cape
Break Sea Spit
Herveys Bay
Bustard Bay
South Head
Cape St. George
Long Nose
Red Point
Point Solander
Botany Bay
Cape Banks
Port Jackson
Broken Bay
Point Upright
Pidgeon House
