captain cook

Captain James Cook FRS RN (27 October 1728 (O.S.) – 14 February 1779) was an English explorer, navigator an cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. Cook was the first to map Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

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Ironically, he might have saved himself from death in 1779 if he had known how to swim
He introduced the word "tattoo" into English in the record of his expedition to Tahiti in 1769
In 1774 this English captain reached 71 deg., 10 min. south latitude -- the most southerly point then achieved
On Valentine's Day 1779, this English explorer was killed by natives in a struggle over a boat
In January 1773 this British sea captain crossed the Antarctic Circle but never sighted land
Woe unto the decision to take a Hawaiian chief hostage in 1779; this naval legend was slain
(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a boomerang at the Australian Museum.) Boomerangs often feature designs that reflect aboriginal culture & history; on the one I'm holding, the warriors, body of water & ship represent this man's landing at Botany Bay
William Bligh served as master of the HMS Resolution during this captain's third voyage to the Pacific
Apprenticed to a British shipowner as a teen in the 1740s, he became one of the great explorers of the Pacific
In the 1770s he & his crew became the first Europeans known to have visited Hawaii--didn't end well, though
In 1769 this British captain charted the coast of Tahiti & then set sail for New Zealand
The painting seen here depicts this newsworthy fatality of 1779
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew strolls the shores of Waimea Bay, Kauai.) When this man arrived here on Kauai in the late 1770s, he was welcomed as the harvest god Lono

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