Maritime explorer and cartographer. Born near Middlesbrough. The first to map Newfoundland, explored around Australia and the Hawaiian Islands and made the first circumnavigation of New Zealand.
Killed in Kealakekua Bay by Hawaiian villagers during a fracas concerning the theft of one of Cook's small boats. Cook was held in high esteem by the chiefs so his body was given the same funeral rites that one of their elders would have received. It was disembowelled, baked and the bones cleaned. Following appeals from his comrades the remains were eventually returned for burial at sea.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Captain James Cook
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Barking Abbey
Barking Abbey Was founded by St Erkenwald in the year 666. Destroyed by the D...
Captain Cook - E1
{Left-most panel:} He surveyed the St Lawrence River in 1759. In three voyag...
Captain Cook - E1 - lost plaque
This terracotta-coloured plaque is now in Australia (see eHive) with one of t...
Captain Cook - The Highway
The plaque gives Cook's address as 126 Upper Shadwell. Horward's 1799 map gi...
Captain James Cook statue
The original inscription stopped after "New Zealand." In 1928 the British Em...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Ed. Laurence
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Christopher Columbus
Explorer. Born in the Republic of Genoa (his birth date is approximate). From 1492 to 1504, he made four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean under the auspices of the monarchs of Spain. These voyages...
Person, Exploring, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Caribbean Islands, Cuba, Italy, Spain, USA
1 memorial
UK Antarctic Heritage Trust
Established to support the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust in raising funds for the conservation of historical explorers' huts in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica, and to recognise and conser...
1 memorial
Captain Matthew Flinders
Explorer and navigator of the Australian seas. Born in Donington, Lincolnshire. Invented the Flinders Bar, a device for counteracting the vertical component of a ship's magnetic field, and gave Aus...
2 memorials