James Cook
Famous British navigator
James Cook was an eighteenth-century British navigator and explorer who led three voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean.
He mapped coastlines from New Zealand to Hawaii, charted the eastern coast of Australia, and searched for the hypothetical southern continent.
Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779 during a confrontation with islanders.
His name appears in place names across the Pacific: the Cook Islands, Cook Strait, Mount Cook.
Complete journey around something
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- discoveryAct of finding something
- voyageJourney by sea
- seafaringTraveling by ocean vessel
Pacific · Oceania · Polynesia · Hawaii · Tahiti · New Zealand · Australia · Great Barrier Reef
Vessel or network name
- Royal NavyUK naval military branch
- tall shipLarge traditional sailing vessel
- barkSharp canine vocalization
- sailingWind-propelled water travel
maritime · replica · museum · maritime heritage · crew · sauerkraut
Visual data displays
- longitudeEast-west angular distance
- latitudeGeographic or personal freedom
- chronometerPrecision timekeeping instrument
- sextantMaritime angular measurement device
celestial navigation · dead reckoning · hydrography · surveying · mapmaking · cartography · nautical almanac · bearing
Act of honoring memory
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- statueThree-dimensional sculpted likeness
- Cook IslandsSelf-governing Pacific archipelago
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
controversy · colonial legacy · reappraisal · death · bicentenary
circumnavigation
Complete journey around something
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- discoveryAct of finding something
- voyageJourney by sea
seafaring · Pacific · Oceania · Polynesia · Hawaii · Tahiti · New Zealand · Australia · Great Barrier Reef · Tonga
Discovery
Vessel or network name
- Royal NavyUK naval military branch
- tall shipLarge traditional sailing vessel
- barkSharp canine vocalization
sailing · maritime · replica · museum · maritime heritage · crew · sauerkraut
charts
Visual data displays
- longitudeEast-west angular distance
- latitudeGeographic or personal freedom
- chronometerPrecision timekeeping instrument
sextant · celestial navigation · dead reckoning · hydrography · surveying · mapmaking · cartography · nautical almanac · bearing · course
commemoration
Act of honoring memory
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- statueThree-dimensional sculpted likeness
- Cook IslandsSelf-governing Pacific archipelago
memorial · controversy · colonial legacy · reappraisal · death · bicentenary
- Georgian BritonsJane Austen, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats, William Blake
- explorationexploration, explore, expedition, expeditions, voyage
- seafarerssailor, seaman, mariner, able seaman, merchant seaman
- 18th Century FiguresNapoleon, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, George Washington
- Buffalo BillsJosh Allen, Jim Kelly, blue and red, AFC Championship, O.J. Simpson
- Maori HistoryMaori, Aotearoa, Treaty of Waitangi, waka, pa
James Cookisolationism
Policy avoiding foreign alliances
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