Voyages of James Cook
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Captain James Cook was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Sailing both eastwards and westwards around the world, Cook and his crews explored parts of the world no European had sailed before, and like Magellan 258 years earlier, his life ended in a battle on the shores of the Pacific.
UnderstandBorn in 1728 in the village of Marton in North Yorkshire, when he was 16 (1745) Cook moved to the fishing village of Staithes, to be apprenticed as a shop boy.
SeeThere are over 100 memorials to Cook around the world. We only list some of these here, the Captain Cook Society have longer lists.
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- Photo: Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons