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Cook, James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cooknoun
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
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James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years' War and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the St. Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec, which brought him to the attention of the Admiralty and the Royal Society. This acclaim came at a crucial moment for the direction of British overseas exploration, and it led to his commission in 1768 as commander of HMS Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. In these voyages, Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe. He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in greater detail and on a scale not previously charted by Western explorers. He surveyed and named features, and recorded islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. He displayed a combination of seamanship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage, and an ability to lead men in adverse conditions. Cook was attacked and killed in 1779 during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific while attempting to kidnap the ruling chief of the island of Hawaiʻi, Kalaniʻōpuʻu, in order to reclaim a cutter taken from one of his ships after his crew took wood from a burial ground. Whilst there is controversy over Cook's role as 'an enabler of colonialism' and the violence associated with his contacts with indigenous peoples, he left a legacy of scientific and geographical knowledge that influenced his successors well into the 20th century, and numerous memorials worldwide have been dedicated to him.
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captain cook
Captain Cook, also known as James Cook, was a British explorer, cartographer, and naval captain in the 18th century. He is known for making detailed maps of Newfoundland and achieving the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, as well as being the first to circumnavigate and accurately map New Zealand. His voyages helped establish British overseas settlement and significantly contributed to oceanography, cartography, and anthropology.
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Captain Cook
Captain Cook is a census-designated place in Hawaiʻi County, Hawaiʻi, in the United States located in the District of South Kona. The community, which is actually located in the land division of Kealakekua, is so named because the post office for the area was located in the Captain Cook Coffee Co. during the early 1900s. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 3,206. The population increased by 7.0% to 3,429 at the 2010 census.
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Captain Cook
A real explorer who discovered the Sandwich Islands and who took the first Cook's tour around the world.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of captain cook in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
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The numerical value of captain cook in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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