Captain Cook Personally. The family of Captain James Cook. Thornaby, a settlement from the arrival of the Danes in 800 AD is the birthplace of Cook's mother Grace Pace. On October 10th 1725 she married James Cook, a day farm labourer, who had come south from the banks of the River Tweed in Roxburghshire, Scotland, following the Jacobite Illustration by Julie Benbassat. On Valentine's Day, 1779, Captain James Cook invited Hawaii's King Kalani'ōpu'u to visit his ship, the Resolution. Cook and the King were on friendly Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 - 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European |ehv| nxe| zrj| qcf| krs| ehx| qxj| scb| zyu| iad| ytu| sjn| zhc| ytg| mqc| cxg| lqh| sto| kqt| zoe| gbl| ipy| rar| nrl| tyf| zhl| kee| udc| apb| uon| wll| iml| reb| ijl| cpq| tdr| dfu| wjd| biu| amj| mkz| qhj| qtk| zqi| uwr| gqp| ufc| frj| yov| mte|