James Cook was born on the 27th of October 1928, and was one of seven children. His father was a poor farm labourer, and so was James until getting a job at a Grocer's assistant. Cook then began to work as an apprentice for a firm of ship owners. At the age of 18, James Cook found employment on the Baltic Sea in a Collier(ships for coal transport).
In 1755 Cook joined the Royal, Navy of England and was aboard as an able seamen on the "Eagle". Within only 4 years, he had become a master, and spent years charting the North Atlantic coastal waters of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and the Saint Lawrence River, below Quebec. During that time, Cook played a role in the Seven-Year's war. Cook was given command of his own ship to chart the St. Lawrence river, leading the way for the Wolfe amphibious assault by the British during the war with the French in Quebec city in 1759. In 1763 he was given command of the schooner Grenville to survey the eastern coasts of Canada over a four-year period. These excellent charts were used up until the early part of the 20th century.
In 1768, Cook was elected to lead the expedition for the Royal Society aboard the Endeavour (The Endeavour was a Whitby Collier ship). The endeavour weighed 368 tonnes, was 106 feet long, 29feet wide, 29 feet 3 inches in the beam and specially fitted for the voyage. She could make seven or eight knots at the most, but could keep a good pace for a long voyage. .
Cook was selected to lead this expedition to the Pacific Islands because of his ability to navigate, and be cause he was a cartographer with much experience. Cook was also a naval officer; The Royal Society did not want a merchant sailing in with a naval ship.
On August 26th, The endeavour set sail to observe the transit of Venus and explore new islands in the Pacific Ocean, more importantly; the land the people called "the great southern land". Aboard the ship were also men that the Royal society wanted to study sights the Endeavour would see.
Captain James Cook was one of these men who went on many expeditions around the world. ... Cook was the best known navigator map maker and scientist of the time. ... From there he became a captain who sailed to many unkknown places and charted them. Cook was the first European to reach and chart the east coast of Australia and the islands of New Zealand, Hawaii and Tahiti. ... Cook voyaged all over the world. ...
To many Londoners, the selection of Lieutenant James Cook was as surprising as the Admiralty's choice of the Endeavor. ... Compared to Commodore Byron or Captain Samuel Wallis, Cook sprang from the lower levels of British society. ... Like the Endeavor, James Cook possessed the exact qualities the Admiralty had wanted. ... However, life as a coal captain did not interest the twenty-seven year old James Cook. ... It was obvious to the Eagle's captain, Joseph Hamar, that Cook was no ordinary recruit. ...
"Terra Nullus" or "empty land", described Australia through the eyes of Captain James Cook and the Endeavour when they first anchored in Botany Bay in 1770. ... When Captain James Cook's Endeavour anchored in Botany Bay in 1770, the health of aborigines and Torres Straight Islanders was almost certainly better than that of the crew. ...
Explorers James Cook- Four years later Cook took two British ships onto the west coast. ... Cook kept traveling north to the Arctic Ocean but big icebergs blocked out the expedition, but Cook still charted the coast from his ship. He was the first sea captain to prevent the spread of scurvy a water disease aboard his ships by serving fruit and sauerkraut. ... Hawaiian natives stabbed Cook to death when he landed in Hawaii. George Vancouver- After Cooks expedition it led to the arrival of many explorers. ...
The Aboriginal people had never seen white people until Captain James Cook. ... What was the misunderstanding between Captain Arthur Philip and the old Aborigine man? The misunderstanding was not intentional by Captain Arthur Phillip it was just that the aborigines were very sharing people and when the Old Man went to borrow his shovel he wasn't going to share. ... The Old man was very offended by this and Captain Phillip was very careful not to offend the aborigines but Aborigines and the Settlers cultures were so different! ... They killed some white people and even injured the Captain...
The only information about Australia was the information on New South Wales from Captain James Cook's voyage in 1770. ... Officers abused power, convicts ran rampant and Captain Arthur Phillip struggled to maintain order. ... Theft of food and alcohol was very common place and floggings of up to 500 lashes and even the hanging on 6 march of James Barett failed to check the evil. ... Captain Arthur Phillip Captain Arthur Phillip was born in 1738 in London.. ... During the American War of Independence in 1778, he returned to the English navy and became a post captain in 1781. ...
The ancient ocean loving pastime of he"enalu is the only Polinesian pastime to dig deep and flourish wherever it has been introduced. Today it is practiced on either coast of the United States, Australia, Brazil, France, Portugal, South Africa, Japan, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Hawaii and even in the fr...
In 1778, a Captain James Cook, sailed the Resolution into Waimea Bay Hawaii. The effect of this journey was to radically restructure the space/time vectors connecting Hawaii with London. This rift in global space/time instantly conceptualized a dramatic shift in "positional, opening a wormhole in so...
James Michener tells us of another god in his book, Hawaii. ... In Hawaii, the people adopted new gods that fit the appropriate situation, always looking for the best outcome (James Michener's Hawaii). ... In 1778, Captain Cook became the first European to reach Hawaii. ... Cook was respected and treated hospitably by the natives, but he eventually outstayed his welcome. ...