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British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.
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Captain James Cook, FRS, RN ( 7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779 ) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.
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* James Cook ( 1728 – 1779 ), British explorer, navigator, and map maker
By 1945 Barrow had risen to the rank of Flying Officer and was appointed as personal navigator to the Commander in Chief of the British Zone of occupied Germany.
In early 1792 British navigator George Vancouver explored Puget Sound and gave English names to the high mountains he saw.
William Bay was named after the famed British Arctic explorer and navigator, Sir William Edward Parry, as were two other nearby features, Parry Inlet and Edward Point.
The bay was named in 1800 by the British navigator James Grant, who sailed in the Lady Nelson along the Victorian coast.
James Cook ( 1728 – 1779 ) was a British explorer, navigator, and map maker.
* James Grant ( navigator ) ( 1772 – 1833 ), British naval officer, Australian explorer
* Captain James Cook, ( R. N., FRS )-18th century British navigator and explorer, apprenticed to this job in his youth
Some of the south-eastern islands of the Furneaux Group where first recorded in 1773 by British navigator Tobias Furneaux, commander of, the support vessel with James Cook on Cook ’ s second voyage.
In February 1798 British navigator Matthew Flinders charted some of the southern islands, using one of the schooner Francis ' open boats.
James Weddell ( Ostend, August 24, 1787 – September 9, 1834 ) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in the early Spring of 1823 sailed to latitude of 74 ° 15 ' S ( a record 7. 69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle ) and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea.
Their experiments have given birth to what could be called " browser art ", which has been expanded by the British collective I / O / D's experimental navigator WebStalker.
During his voyage through the area in 1778, the famed British navigator and explorer, Captain James Cook named the area " in honor of the Admiral Earl of Bristol " in England.
The British equivalent of the term gandy dancer is " navvy " from " navigator ", originally builders of canals or " inland navigations ".
** British military aircraft crashes at Templeport, Tullyhaw, County Cavan: pilot and navigator survive.
By 1945 he had risen to the rank of Flying Officer and was appointed as personal navigator to the Commander in Chief of the British Zone of occupied Germany, Sir William Sholto Douglas.
The village was the boyhood home of Captain Cook, the British explorer and navigator.
Today several areas in the state of South Australia still bear his name, such as Nuyts's Reef, Cape Nuyts and the Nuyts Archipelago ; names given by the British navigator and cartographer Matthew Flinders.
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* 1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.
An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.
The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.
* Captain Boomer, a British whaling ship captain who appears briefly in Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Also during World War I a mail fringe, designed by Captain Cruise of the British Infantry, was added to helmets to protect the face.
The second immediate reason was the presence in Kabul in 1837 of a Russian agent, Captain P. Vitkevich, who was ostensibly there, as was the British agent Alexander Burnes, for commercial discussions.
The next year Captain John MacBride established a British settlement at Port Egmont.
Captain Arthur Phillip assumed office as Governor of New South Wales on 7 February 1788, when the Colony of New South Wales, the first British settlement in Australia, was formally founded.
Captain George Vancouver ( 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798 ) was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.
In London she met Captain James Fell, a British Army officer, and they married in March 1935.
The island's first known sighting by Europeans was on 21 August 1821 by the British ship Eliza Francis ( or Eliza Frances ) owned by Edward, Thomas and William Jarvis and commanded by Captain Brown.
* 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
* 1947 – Rod Evans, British musician ( Deep Purple and Captain Beyond )
In 1975 the Captain Cook Hotel was built on the former British military base.
In 1830 Captain Charles Sturt reached the river after travelling down its tributary the Murrumbidgee River and named it the Murray River in honour of the then British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Sir George Murray, not realising it was the same river that Hume and Hovell had encountered further upstream.
Soon, Captain Webb from the British Army aided him.
King Jaya Prakash Malla of Kathmandu sought help from the British and so the East India Company sent a contingent of soldiers under Captain Kinloch in 1767.
The British first sighted New Caledonia on 4 September 1774, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
* 1728 – Captain James Cook, British naval officer, explorer, and cartographer ( d. 1779 )
* 1778 – British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
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