Interesting Facts about Captain James Cook, Explorer and More

I came across many of these things online, and I have in quotes what is not my material, which is what mostly is showing below. I compiled it, but wanted to keep it somewhere. Just some interesting notes about Cook's journeys.

Captain James Cook, Explorer

1. Captain Cook achieved the first European contact with the Eastern Coastline
of Australia. Very cool... can you imagine? Also, Hawaii, and the first
recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand...he is one lucky guy. I can't imagine all the beauty and adventures he encountered.

2. Neat quote "Following on from his
exertions in Newfoundland, it was at this time that Cook wrote that he intended
to go not only:

possible for a man to go."

3. James Cook's first voyage - "The expedition sailed from England in 1768,
on 13 April 1769, where the observations of the Venus Transit was made."

4. "Cook later mapped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only some
first recorded Europeans to have encountered its eastern coastline"

5. "On 23 April he made his first recorded direct observation of indigenous

6. "Cook's journals were published upon his return, and he became something of
aristocratic botanist Joseph Banks was a bigger hero.[3] Banks even attempted to
for his second voyage"

7. "Then, in 1772, he was commissioned by the Royal Society to search for the
others of the Royal Society still believed that this massive southern continent
should exist."

8. "Cook almost encountered the mainland of Antarctica, but turned back north
second fruitless attempt to find the supposed continent."

9. "His reports upon his return home put to rest the popular myth of Terra

10. He stopped many places on his last voyage..even up in California, and up
toward Canada..Alaska, etc. One interesting quote, "The Bering Strait proved to

11. Cooks Death. "After a month's stay, Cook got under sail again to resume
his exploration of the Northern Pacific. However, shortly after leaving Hawaii
islands by Cook's expedition was not just unexpected by the Hawaiians, but also
of quarrels broke out between the Europeans and Hawaiians. On 14 February at
hostages until the stolen articles were returned.[3] Indeed, he attempted to
take hostage the King of Hawaiʻi, Kalaniʻōpuʻu. The
villagers and then stabbed to death as he fell on his face in the surf.[37]
Hawaiian tradition says that he was killed by a chief named
Kalanimanokahoowaha.[38] The Hawaiians dragged his body away. Four of the
Marines with Cook were also killed and two wounded in the confrontation."

OK... These were some of the main highlights or what I found interesting from
Cook's life. There is much more too, like where he lived and married and his
children. Very much worth looking up sometime.