James Cook

How To Use James Cook In A Sentence

• However, instead of clouding my love of James Cook, unpeeling the onion layers of George's life and his own discoveries added a vital new angle to the traditional Cook story.
• The island is much the same way as it was when James Cook sailed by on his way home from his voyage of discovery in 1770.
• James Cook was a Yorkshire shopboy turned Royal Navy non-commissioned officer who safely commanded the tubby Endeavour around the world: also a man of great ability, a 'genius' according to Lord Colville . Archive 2007-11-01
• Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy.
• The most accurate chronometers could yield a position that was accurate only to within a few miles, but good enough for James Cook to accurately map the East Coast of Australia and allow the First Fleet to find Port Jackson again.
• James Cook, on his last voyage around the world, followed numerous fjords into the deeply indented Alaskan coast, meeting nothing but frustration.
• Council convenor Helene Marsh, dean of graduate research at James Cook University, said the universities 'plans to badge professional masters qualifications as doctorates would "demean" the PhD. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
• South Island, the larger of the pair, is also known locally as "the Mainland," while North Island, where three-quarters of the population lives, is also called "Pig Island," partly for the wild pigs that English explorer James Cook brought during a visit and that still roam in the wilderness. GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines
• They span the period from James Cook's first Pacific voyage, which charted the east coast of Australia in 1770, to the present.
• We would sail in an exact replica of James Cook's original Endeavour as near as possible under eighteenth-century conditions, but with the clear understanding that we were twenty-first-century travelers.