Who Was James Cook, The Explorer?
James Cook was born in 1728 and he was a British naval explorer in the mid to late 1700s. He surveyed the St Lawrence River in North America in 1759 and then made three major voyages. He sailed to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia between 1768 and 1771, to the South Pacific between 1772 and 1775 and to the South and North Pacific, trying to find the Northwest passage between 1776 and 1779. He died in Hawaii in 1779 during this epic third voyage. His final voyage were made with the ships the Resolution and the Discovery. His survey took him as far as the Bering Strait in Siberia but his way through was blocked by ice and he turned back. He revisited Hawaii, an island that he had been to before, and his sailors clashed with the indigenous people there. He was killed in the fighting. Cook is mainly remembered for his discoveries of Easter Island, New South Wales and Botany Bay.
