His adventures on his ship, the ‘HMS Endeavor’ and his discoveries have steered generations of voyagers, explorers and cartographers. He returned victorious, discovering New Zealand and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia; the two places still considered some of the most dangerous areas ever navigated by a human. After a short period spent searching for the Northwest Passage Cook realised that it was too late in the year to make any progress and so sailed for warmer winter quarters in the Hawaiian Islands, arriving there in December 1778.

1776–1780: Third voyage – Resolution and Discovery. When Cook left Hawaii his ships ran into gales which broke a mast, forcing him to return to Kealakekua Bay for repairs on 11th February. 1768–1771: First voyage – Endeavour

This passage would provide a fast route to China to secure trading opportunities between the two countries. He completed his three-year apprenticeship and began working on trading ships in the Baltic Sea. The Endeavour landed for the first time in what is now known as Botany Bay. He is known today as one of the great discoverers of all time but to his contemporaries in the Navy he was just as renowned for his precise surveying, innovations in keeping his crew healthy and early championing of Harrison’s solution to the problem of longitude. In 1736, the family moved to a farm in Great Ayton, where he attended a local school.

During one leg of the expedition, his ship, the ‘HMS Endeavor’ was badly damaged and his voyage was delayed by 7 weeks.

James Cook was born the son of a labourer in a tiny cottage in Marton in Cleveland. He was the second of the eight children born to the couple and was baptized at the St. Cuthbert Church. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/james-cook-3865.php.

Cook’s remains were buried at sea in Kealakekua Bay. In 1776, he won the Copley Gold Medal for his successful work in curbing the outbreaks of scurvy among his crew. He became the first European to have encountered the eastern coastline and penned down his first experiences with the indigenous, aboriginal folk of Australia. Oct 27, 1728, James Cook was born in Marton, England.

His 12 years of sailing around the Pacific Ocean, his journals, the artifacts and his mapping has proved to be useful for professional cartographers or voyagers. La Historia de los Derechos de las mujeres, Línea del tiempo: Conquista de Cortés y Nuño Beltrán, Marco histórico conceptual de la gestión de los recursos públicos, Economic change in Canada from 1914 to 1929, Historia de los derechos humanos en México, HISTORIAS Y LOS SISTÉMAS TEORICOS DE LA PSICOLOGÍA CONTEMPORANEA, DE LA LOGICA CLASICA A LA LOGICA SIMBOLICA, . This timeline charts the journeys of James Cook and his crew on their voyages to the Pacific Ocean. He was the second of the eight children born to the couple and was baptized at the St. Cuthbert Church.

He fought in the seven year war against the French. The ‘Cook Collection’ in the Australian museum holds all of James Cooks’ artifacts that he collected over his three voyages. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/james-cooks-voyage-lives-in-his-own-hand/news-story/99c3a0232e93431e13116e1a533d7606, http://myplace.edu.au/decades_timeline/1770/decade_landing_23.html?tabRank=2, http://jasminetuua.global2.vic.edu.au/2014/05/15/explorers-captain-cook/. James attended the nearby Postgate School at Great Ayton. During the period of the ‘Seven Years’ War’, he captured the Fortress of Louisburg and showed his flair for cartography and surveillance. He then sailed to New Zealand and mapped the country’s coastline, reaching the coast of Australia on April 19, 1770. His first position in the Royal Navy was with the ‘HMS Eagle’, where he took part in the capture of one French warship and the sinking of another. James Cook married Elizabeth Batts, on December 21, 1762.