Captain James Cook

British Explorer and Colonizer

James Cook was an Explorer, born October 27, 1728 in Marton,

I now once more hoisted English Coulers Yorkshire, Britain. He joined the Navy in 1755, and in 1769 was the first
and in the Name of His Majesty King George European to land on New Zealand, which had been sighted by the Dutch
the Third, took possession of the whole Eastern some 127 years before. On August 22, 1770 he claimed a part of unmapped
Coast [of New Holland] from the above Latitude Australia for Great Britain, and on a later journey in July 1778 was the first
down to this place by the name of New South Wales.

known European to reach the Hawaiin Islands. That same year he landed on Vancouver Island of British Columbia, another first for Europeans. He later went back to Hawaii after turning away from the Artic Ocean due to ice blockage, and was stabbed to death by Hawaiian natives for investigating a theft of a boat by an islander.

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