In 1778, Joseph Banks, Cook's botanist on the voyage, presented evidence to the government on the suitability of Botany Bay for the establishment of a penal settlement, and in 1787 the first shipment of convicts set sail, arriving in 1788.

* 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 ).

In 1899, Northern Pacific Railway developer Nelson Bennett began laying track from the town of Fairhaven, northwest on Bellingham Bay, and real estate developer Norman R. Kelley platted a new town of Sedro on high ground a mile northwest of Cook's site.

The town of Georgina lies along the entire south shore of Lake Simcoe and consists smaller residential towns and communities, including Keswick on Cook's Bay, Sutton, Jackson's Point, Pefferlaw, and Udora.

Eighteen years later, on 21 January 1788, after arriving at Botany Bay, Governor Arthur Phillip took a longboat and two cutters up the coast to examine Cook's Port Jackson.

Located north of Toronto on Cook's Bay ( part of Lake Simcoe ), Keswick is part of the Town of Georgina.

They were the botanists who inspired the name Botanist Bay ( which later became Botany Bay ) for the first landing place of Cook's expedition in Australia.

William Anderson, surgeon and naturalist on Captain James Cook's third voyage, collected the first Superb Fairywren specimen in 1777 while traveling off the coast of eastern Tasmania, in Bruny Island's Adventure Bay.

In 1970, the name ' Endeavour Hills ' was coined in honour of the two hundredth anniversary of Captain James Cook's arrival in Botany Bay.

Cook's journals first referred to the bay as Sting Rays ' Harbour, then later Botanist Bay and finally both these names were crossed out and replaced with Botany Bay.

Matthew Flinders placed Cook's ' Broken Bay ' at 33 ° 42 ' South, near to the mouth of Narrabeen Lagoon.

In 1773 Tobias Furneaux was the first recorded European to land on the island at Adventure Bay ( named after his ship ); four years later on 26 January 1777 James Cook's two ships, the Resolution and Discovery stayed in the bay area for two days.

" By noon Cook's ship was in a position a little over half-way across the opening of Hervey Bay heading for Bundaberg.

Cook's Bay is the southernmost bay in Lake Simcoe

Cook's Bay is the southernmost bay of Lake Simcoe in Ontario, Canada.

Cook's Bay is southern Ontario's year round playground attracting locals and visitors from hundreds of miles away.

* Natural Resources Canada entry for Cook's Bay

Williamson had a history of indecisiveness: in 1779, while a junior officer on Captain James Cook's voyage to the Pacific Ocean, Williamson had prevaricated about bringing boats to evacuate Cook from Kealakekua Bay while under attack by Hawaiians.

For pedestrians and cyclists based in Cook's Beach, Flaxmill Bay, Front Beach, and Ferry Landing, this ferry provides direct access to the shops and restaurants of Whitianga.

In 1778, Joseph Banks, Cook's botanist on the voyage, presented evidence to the government on the suitability of Botany Bay for the establishment of a penal settlement, and in 1787 the first shipment of convicts set sail, arriving in 1788.

Puriri was first collected at Tolaga Bay by Banks and Solander during Cook's first visit in 1769.

* Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia was named after Lord Morton by Captain Cook ( the spelling being an error in the published account of Cook's voyage )

A monument at Cook's Lookout was erected in 1970.

SAT was the first known NP-complete problem, as proved by Stephen Cook in 1971 ( see Cook's theorem for the proof ).

Vancouver's first naval service was as a midshipman aboard, on James Cook's second voyage ( 1772 – 1775 ) searching for Terra Australis.

Cook's first posting was with HMS Eagle, sailing with the rank of master's mate.

Cook's aptitude for surveying was put to good use mapping the jagged coast of Newfoundland in the 1760s, aboard the HMS Grenville.

He complained that Frost's success was based on copying Cook's own stage persona and that his only regret in life had been once saving Frost from drowning.

In Cook's time it was impractical to preserve citrus fruit for long sea voyages.

More important was Cook's regime of shipboard cleanliness, enforced by strict discipline, as well as frequent replenishment of fresh food.

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.

Bligh returned to England at the end of 1780 and was able to give details of Cook's last voyage.

" Praise You ", also from this album, was Cook's first UK solo number one.

In 2003, he produced Crazy Beat and Gene by Gene from the Blur album Think Tank, and in 2004, Palookaville was Cook's first studio album for four years.

This was the first of James Cook's voyages of discovery in that region.

The Banksia genus was first described and named by Carolus Linnaeus the Younger in his April 1782 publication Supplementum Plantarum ; hence the full name for the genus is " Banksia L. f ." The genus name honours the English botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who collected the first Banksia specimens in 1770, during James Cook's first expedition.

The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration ( 1772 – 1775 ) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean ; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook.

However, the relationship between the Forsters and Cook and his officers was often problematic, due to the elder Forster's fractious temperament as well as Cook's refusal to allow more time for botanizing and other scientific observation.

This report was the first account of Cook's second voyage ( it appeared six weeks before the official publication ) and was intended for the general public.

From his London years, Forster was in contact with Sir Joseph Banks, the initiator of the Bounty expedition and a participant in Cook's first journey.

Moore was deeply affected by the death of Peter Cook in 1995, and for weeks would regularly telephone Cook's home in London just to get the telephone answering machine and hear his friend's voice.

Moore attended Cook's memorial service in London and at the time many people who knew him noted that Moore was behaving strangely and attributed it to grief or drinking.

While Bennett and Miller were already pursuing traditional careers, Cook had an agent due to his having written a West End revue for Kenneth Williams ; as a result, Cook's agent negotiated a higher weekly fee for him to participate, although by the time the agent's fee was deducted, Cook actually earned less than the others from the initial run.

Macmillan — according to Cook — was not particularly fond of the slurred caricature and charade of senile forgetfulness ( marked by a failure to pronounce ' Conservative Party ' coherently ) handed down on him in Cook's impersonation.

The show broke new ground with Peter Cook's impression of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ; on one occasion, this was performed with Macmillan in the audience, and Cook added an ad lib ridiculing Macmillan for turning up to watch.