Captain James Cook

1728 - 1779
 Captain James Cook
was born on
November 7th 1728
in North Yorkshire.

South Shields

Whitby
This is an artists representation of his
house

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His family were quite poor.
When he was 17years old he joined the Walker family in
Whitby.
He helped them ship coal along the coast between the River
Tyne and the River Thames in London.

London
Because of his excellent sailing, navigation and astronomy
skills Captain Cook joined the Royal Navy in 1755, where
he learnt to sail and charter the seas.

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differently today?
 In 1768 he was appointed commander of HMS Endeavour
and sent on a voyage to observe the planet Venus pass in
front of the sun.

However, the real reason he was sent on this voyage was to

discover the Great Southern Continent known today as
Australia, but this was unofficial and kept a secret from the
public.
They first spotted Australia on April 19th 1770.

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one we use today and why?
However, Cook and his crew sailed further up the East Coast and finally
claimed Australia calling it New South Wales on April 28th 1770 when
he first set foot on Australian soil at Botany Bay.

Botany Bay
Then they continued north along the coast. The sea was very rough
and they were nearly shipwrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, but
they managed to escape without too much damage. They sailed into
what is now called Cooktown (after Captain Cook) in far north
Queensland, where they did repairs to the ship.

Cooktown

The Great
Barrier
Reef
Cook returned to England in 1771 having travelled some
30,000 miles and charted over 5,000 miles of coastline to
tell of his discoveries.
 Due to the success of Captain Cooks voyage he became a national figure
and was respected by everyone. As a result of this he went on two more
expeditions in an attempt to find more discoveries.

U.K

Hawaii
Australia
His next trip saw him be the first to cross the Antarctic circle on the
17th of January 1773.
However his third voyage was his final one, as he was killed by a
cannibal tribe in Hawaii during an argument 1779.
The native people stole the cutter of the Discovery. The next
day, the 14th February 1779, Cook went ashore to take the
Hawaiian king into custody pending the return of the cutter but
a fight developed and Cook, four of his marines and a number
of natives were killed.

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Once Captain Cooks Crew finally got his body back from
the cannibal tribe they saw that the tribe had stripped his
body of all his flesh and burnt it on the fire. They had also
cut out his heart and eaten it as a sign of respect to the
explorer. Cooks crew wrapped his body in cloth and buried
him at sea.

How do we show respect for the dead

today?