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* Canada Post issued a pair of 14-cent stamps to mark the 200th anniversary of Captain Cook's arrival at Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island on 26 April 1978.
In February 1780 the crews of HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, on the way home after Captain James Cook's death in
In Hawaii at the time of Captain Cook's visit ( 1779 Chr. E.
The first written reference to the word, " tattoo " ( or Samoan " Tatau ") appears in the journal of Joseph Banks, the naturalist aboard Captain Cook's ship the HMS Endeavour: " I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition ".
In 1776, Bligh was selected by Captain James Cook for the position of sailing master on the Resolution and accompanied Cook in July 1776 on Cook's third and fatal voyage to the Pacific.
He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage ( 1768 – 1771 ).
At the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show, an exhibition garden celebrated the historic link between naturalist Sir Joseph Banks and the botanical discoveries of flora and fauna on his journey through South America, Tahiti, New Zealand and eventually Australia on Captain Cook's ship Endeavour.
In 1898, the cape was officially renamed as Cape Dezhnev, replacing Captain James Cook's name, the " East Cape ".
While they were still on the high seas, in May 1840 Hobson proclaimed British sovereignty over the South Island by virtue of Captain Cook's discovery.
Humboldt's passion for travel was confirmed by a friendship formed at Göttingen with Georg Forster, Heyne's son-in-law and the companion of Captain James Cook on Cook's second voyage.
Stowaway, based on the true story of an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour in 1768.
Deptford and the docks are associated with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind, the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard Resolution, and the mysterious murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand.
* Batemans Bay, New South Wales: Percy Mumbulla told of Captain Cook's arriving on a large ship which anchored at Snapper Island, from which he disembarked to give the myth-teller's predecessors clothes ( to wear ) and hard biscuits ( to eat ).
Mumbulla told how his predecessors rejected Captain Cook's gifts, throwing them into the sea.
In this myth, Captain Cook introduced ' Cook's Law ', upon which the settlers rely.
Some Hawaiians may have believed that Captain James Cook was Lono returned and indeed this fact may have ultimately contributed to Cook's death ( see James Cook-Third voyage ( 1776-1779 )).
This Lono was born and brought up not far from the place where were laid away the bones of Keawe and his descendants, woven into basket-work like those of his ancestors from the time of Liloa, near the place where Captain Cook's grave stands, a monument to a brave but in the end too highhanded a visitor among an aristocratic race such as the Polynesian.
An Aboriginal man dressed as Captain Cook and Aboriginal float led the parade in 1988, 200 years after Cook's landing and claim on the land.
European history of the area is considered to start with Captain Cook's visit to the sounds in 1770s, discovering a plant ( Cooks Scurvy Grass ) high in vitamin C which helped to cure scurvy amongst his crew.
The crew of Captain James Cook became the first Europeans to sight the peninsula, during Cook's first circumnavigation of New Zealand in 1769, when he named the feature in honour of the Endeavours botanist, Joseph Banks.
Captain Cook's statue in front of the Royal Crescent, built by George Hudson.
In 1779, the island was charted as Sulphur Island, the literal translation of its official name, during Captain James Cook's third surveying voyage.
Captain James Cook always took a store of sauerkraut on his sea voyages, since experience had taught him it prevented scurvy .< ref > see http :// www. mariner. org / exploration / index. php? type = webpage & id = 55 / < u > What did they eat ?</ u > which begins " One of Cook's most important discoveries ..." and http :// www. vitamindeficiency. info /? page_id = 9 which additionally mentions "... citrus fruit such as lemons and lime.
He also edited Captain Cook's Journals, and Clarendon's Diary and Letters ( 1763 ).

Captain and surveying
Veterans of the war were promised land and in 1773 Captain Thomas Bullitt was sent on a surveying expedition of the area around the Falls of the Ohio by the governor of Virginia.
Captain Benjamin Bonneville also passed through the future site of the town while he was surveying for the US government in 1834.
In the fall of 1852, a surveying party under the command of Captain Robert Chilton, 1st U. S. Dragoons, selected the junction of the Republican and Smoky Hill Rivers as a site for one of these forts.
Captain Mackay was head of the local militia, and was killed while surveying Itonia Scrub on March 20, 1839.
On 4 February 1817, the Admiralty appointed him to the surveying service in New South Wales, under the command of Captain Phillip Parker King ; Roe sailed for New South Wales on the troopship Dick, arriving on 3 September 1817.
By 1838, he had taken up the profession of surveying land for the Republic of Texas in and around the community of Seguin, later joining the Texas Rangers as lieutenant to Captain John Coffee " Jack " Hays.
Hecate Strait was named by Captain George Henry Richards in 1861 or 1862 after his surveying vessel, the HMS Hecate.
On 17 April of the same year Forbes, accompanied by his friend William Thompson, joined at Malta H. M. surveying ship " Beacon ," to which he had been appointed naturalist by her commander Captain Thomas Graves ( 1802 – 1856 ).
While surveying, Captain Kirk notices a sweet honey smell, and has his men go on alert.
It was seen in 1849 by Captain Owen Stanley while surveying the south coast of Papua and named after him.
Walker ( 1836 ) also described the Diptera from Captain P. P. King's collection made on the first surveying voyage of Adventure and Beagle. Fortunately, many of his descriptions of Darwin's insects will endure because they were of little known groups from little worked regions and most of his types are still in the British Museum ( Natural History ).
In 1773, Captain Thomas Bullitt led the first exploring party into Jefferson County, surveying land on behalf of Virginians who had been awarded land grants for service in the French and Indian War.
When Captain Frederick Mallet was charting and surveying the island of Trinidad following its capitulation to the British in 1797, he was told that the village had no name.
Unknown to the railroad and the general public at this time, a great discovery had been made in 1881 by Captain Francis LeBaron of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, who was surveying the lower Peace River area for a canal to connect the headwaters of the Saint Johns River to Charlotte Harbor.

Captain and crew
He may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before settling on the Caribbean island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined sometime around 1716.
Possibly about 1716, he joined the crew of Captain Benjamin Hornigold, a renowned pirate who operated from New Providence's safe waters.
In addition to his cannon fire, Hood called up his Marines and ordered them to fire volleys of musket shot at the deck of the French ship, driving the crew out of sight but still failing to secure the surrender from Captain Trullet.
The remainder of the crew, numbering over a thousand men, were killed, including Captain Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca and his twelve year old son Giocante.
In a one-on-one fight, Syn defeated and killed Captain Satan to take command of his ship and crew ; among them was Mr. Mipps, a former Royal Navy carpenter with whom Syn had become friends in England after rescuing him from the Customs men.
Mipps then joined Syn in his quest for revenge, pursuing Tappitt and Imogene throughout the thirteen American colonies ( supposedly preaching the gospel to the Indians ) and around the world ( as part of a whaling voyage ) afterwards, and was with him in the Caribbean when Dr. Syn turned again to piracy, assuming the name of Captain Clegg ( taking the name " Clegg " from a certain vicious biting fly he had encountered in America ), hijacking his enemy Tappitt's own ship and crew and sailing off with them ( renaming the ship the Imogene ) to become the most infamous pirate of the day.
When communications with Monster Island are suddenly and mysteriously severed, and all of the monsters begin attacking world capitals, Dr. Yoshida of the UNSC orders Captain Yamabe and the crew of his spaceship, Moonlight SY-3, to investigate Ogasawara.
For the admiral's purpose, S2 = S1 because S2 has the same crew as S1, and Captain Hercules has thus fulfilled the admiral's objective.
* 1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
The Hunters crew did not leave the ship nor did Nauruans board, but Captain John Fearn's positive impression of the island and its people " led to its English name, Pleasant Island.
The first documented European sighting of the region was made by the Dutch Captain Willem de Vlamingh and his crew on 10 January 1697.
Captain Thomas Truxtun's insistence on the highest standards of crew training paid dividends as the frigate USS Constellation captured L ' Insurgente and severely damaged La Vengeance.
Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew, led by Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), first officer Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ), in the 23rd century.
The crew faces situations that are familiar to Star Trek fans and shows the origins of some concepts which have become taken for granted in Star Trek canon, such as Lt. Reed's development of force fields and Captain Archer's questions about cultural interference eventually being answered by later series ' Prime Directive.
In 2371, B ' Elanna Torres joined the Voyager crew with the rest of the Maquis from the Val Jean, as Captain Kathryn Janeway offers them the opportunity.
Captain Kathryn Janeway, the commanding officer of Voyager, offered the Val Jean crew a chance to serve on her ship, and appointed Chakotay as her first officer with the provisional rank of Lieutenant Commander ( in episode " Caretaker ").
As First Officer, he often serves as a mentor to the junior crew members and as an intermediary between the junior crew and the Captain.
* 1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon.
In the end, the disease infected the crew members of the SCS Goliath, a powerful warship, whose commander, Raemes T. Quirk ( a rather blatant spoof of Captain Kirk, as portrayed by William Shatner ), subsequently attacks the Eureka.
The aircraft was refueled, and there was a crew change ; the new flight crew consisted of Captain Ralph G. Kevorkian, Captain / Check Airman Steven E. Snyder and Flight Engineer / Check Airman Richard G. Campbell ( all with more than 30 years employment at TWA ), and Flight Engineer Trainee Oliver Krick, who was starting the sixth leg of his initial operating experience training.
The nine crew members included Captain Victor Saracini, First Officer Michael Horrocks, and flight attendants Robert Fangman, Amy Jarret, Amy King, Kathryn Laborie, Alfred Marchand, Michael Tarrou, and Alicia Titus.

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