Captain 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.

5 days ago · James 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.

We know that James Cook joined the Royal Navy at Wapping in East London on 17 June 1755. Why he chose to join at all and why he chose that particular time have puzzled researchers and it is interesting to speculate as to what might have caused Cook to take the step he did.

Captain James Cook, FRS, RN (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European discovery of eastern Australia, Hawaii and undertook the first circumnavigation of New Zealand.

The Navy, from J.C. Beaglehole’s The Life of CAPTAIN JAMES COOK Cook volunteered at Wapping on 17 June 1755; and the only recorded reason is that he determined to ‘take his future fortune’ that way; or, much the same thing as recollected by Walker, ‘he had always an ambition to go into the Navy’.

Aug 2, 2023 · James Cook was a naval captain, navigator and explorer who, in 1770, charted New Zealand and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia on his ship HMB Endeavour. He later disproved the existence of...

In 1755, Cook enlisted in the Royal Navy, serving in North America where he learnt to survey and chart coastal waters. In 1769, the planet Venus was due to pass in front of the Sun, a rare...

Captain James Cook (1728 –1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean. He claimed possession of Australia and New Zealand and for England, established modern standards in sailing and among other things introduced tattooing ro the West before he killed by ...

The 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 voyages of which James Cook was the commander.

James Cook was certainly sensitive to their powers and on his first voyage deferred to them by naming land and sea features after the two Secretaries of the time, Stephens and Jackson as well as the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Edward Hawke.