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ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS |
James
COOK 1728 - 1779 |
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A Great navigator and explorer, Cook
was a man 'whose competence changed the face of the world'. He was
born in Yorkshire, England the son of a farm labourer. He went to
sea at 17 in the North sea and Baltic trade, then entered the Royal
Navy at 27 as a common seaman. Cook was entirely self-taught and was
promoted quickly. His survey of the St Laurence River greatly help the British capture Quebec in 1759. |
His first great voyage of
1768-71 he completely charted New Zealand and discovered the east
coast of Australia. He went further south than
anyone had before, and established that if there were a southern
continent that it lay frozen behind the pack ice. |
| In his third voyage of 1776-79 he explored the artic coasts of North America and Siberia, but in 1779 in Hawaii., Cook was killed by angry natives in a dispute over a stolen cutter, and his body dismembered. |  |
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