1. Captain James Cook, whose parents were local farmworkers, set out on his celebrated voyages of discovery from this estuary.

2. Captain James Cook took possession of the islands in 1769.

3. Captain James Cook took possession of the islands in 1769 and from that time British people started to settle in New Zealand.

4. In the Hawaiian Islands,(/captain james cook.html) Captain James Cook becomes the first European to discover Maui.

5. Captain James Cook sailed the entire length of the eastern coast in 1770 and claimed the continent for the British and named it New South Wales.

6. Look up the new words in a dictionary. Captain James Cook was a great explorer.

7. 1773 - Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.

8. Captain James Cook, after exploring South Georgia in 1775, dutifully reported an "island of ice" that he briefly mistook for the southern continent he had been sent to find.

9. The frist Englishman to visit New Zealand in 1769 was Captain James COok of the British Royal Navy.

10. Or perhaps you can visit historical Kealakekua Bay where Captain James Cook dramatically lost his life in 1779.

11. One of many primitive plants on Fraser Island, this Banksia was named in honor of British botanist Joseph Banks, who visited Australia's east coast in 1770 on a voyage with Captain James Cook.

12. Hawking won the Royal Society's most prestigious prize for scientific achievement, the same medal given to Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Captain James Cook.