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.

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.

Captain James Cook is known for his extensive voyages that took him throughout the Pacific. He mapped several island groups in the Pacific that had been previously discovered by other explorers. But he was the first European we know of to encounter the Hawaiian Islands.

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.

Discover facts about the life of Captain James Cook - explorer, navigator and pioneer. This extensive biography covers all his voyages and should answer all your questions.

It covers Cook’s 3 voyages in the Pacific and Indian Oceans from 1768 to 1779. The collection includes firsthand records of his travels, such as logbooks, drawings, artefacts, and letters from Sir Joseph Banks and other crew members.

James Cook sailed on many voyages during his life. His most famous ones are the three Pacific voyages (1768-1771, 1772-1775, 1776-1779) when he was an officer in the Royal Navy. He learnt how to be a sailor when he was living at Whitby (1746-1755), in colliers from Newcastle to London, and vessels across to Norway and elsewhere.

Captain James Cook's three epic voyages to the South Seas, between 1768-1779, transformed the way Europeans viewed the Great South Land and the Pacific Ocean. James Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768-1771) was aboard the Endeavour and began on 27 May 1768.

Dec 20, 2024 · The Rubenstein Library contains multiple editions of various published accounts of Captain James Cook’s three voyages around the world in the late eighteenth century, as well as the maps produced as a result of those voyages.