During his epic voyage of 1770, Captain James Cook climbed the peak on Lizard Island to chart a course out to sea through the maze of reefs which confronted him

The current height champion eastern white pine of the Northeast is the Longfellow Pine in Cook Forest State Park, Pennsylvania, which has also been climbed and measured by tape drop, and currently has a height of 55. 96 m ( 183. 6 ft ).

When the parties rendezvoused, Porter was skeptical of Cook ’ s claims that he climbed the mountain.

The tallest peak is Aoraki / Mount Cook, the highest point in New Zealand at and there are sixteen other points in the range that exceed 3, 000 metres in height.

When taking into account the Melbourne 2030 Plan's current urban growth boundary, it is believed that Point Cook ’ s population will peak at approximately 60, 000 by the late 2020s.

The Tasman flows south from the southern slopes of the Minarets peak, along the eastern flank of New Zealand's two highest mountains, Mount Tasman and its higher southern neighbour Aoraki / Mount Cook.

Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.

The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).

Three weeks later, following his recovery, armed with a writ issued by the Catskill justice on affidavits prepared by the district attorney, Cook and Russell rode to arrest Martinez.

On February 17, Russell and Cook were sent to the Pena Flor community on the Vermejo to see about renting out ranches the company had purchased.

Not a bullet touched Cook who was nearer the ambush, but one hit Russell in the leg and another broke his arm, passing on through his body.

Increasing threats on his life finally convinced Cook that he should leave New Mexico.

Cook Bennett Mathues said Juet had predicted bloodshed on the ship.

The evening program was opened by the Jazz Three, a Newport group consisting of Steve Budieshein on bass, Jack Warner, drums, and Don Cook, piano.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.

The crash was witnessed by many passengers on an inter-island Cook Strait ferry.

Phillip soon decided that this site, chosen on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied James Cook in 1770, was not suitable, since it had poor soil, no secure anchorage and no reliable water source.

Charles has appeared on celebrity editions of University Challenge ( 1998 ), Can't Cook, Won't Cook ( 1998 ) and The Weakest Link ( 2004 ), and comedy panel shows such as Have I Got News For You ( 1995 ), Just a Minute ( 1995 ) and They Think It's All Over ( 1996 ).

With Aaron Cook returning from an injury, the Rockies won 2 – 1 in the bottom of the 9th on a Yorvit Torrealba sacrifice fly.

Surprisingly, Cook never sighted the largest island, Rarotonga, and the only island that he personally set foot on was tiny, uninhabited Palmerston Atoll.

In recent years, the Cook Islands has taken on more of its own external affairs ; as of 2005, it has diplomatic relations in its own name with eighteen other countries.

The Constitution of the Cook Islands took effect on August 4, 1965, when the Cook Islands became a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand.

* Toward the Great Change: Crystal and Max Eastman on Feminism, Antimilitarism, and Revolution, edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook ( 1976 )

* Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution, edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook ( 1978 )

* Blanche Wiesen Cook, ed., Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution.

While bassists such as Jack Cook slap bass on the occasional faster " Clinch Mountain Boys song ," bassists such as Gene Libbea, Missy Raines, Jenny Keel, and Barry Bales slap bass.

The name Lizard Island was given to it by Captain Cook when he passed it on 12 August 1770.

* 1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

Other languages with only local ( if any official ) status: Marquesan ( North Marquesan, South Marquesan ), Puka-Pukan, Rarotongan ( Cook Island Maori ), Tuamotuan, Mangarevan, Tubuaian and Rapan.

* 1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.

Christmas Island was discovered by Captain James Cook on Christmas Eve ( 24 December ) 1777.

He named the island " Savage Island " because, legend has it, the natives that " greeted " him were painted in what appeared to Cook and his crew to be blood.

In response, Cook named Niue the Savage Island.

George Forster, who had been on Cook ’ s second voyage to the Pacific and had been with him when he landed on Norfolk Island, was at the time professor of natural history at the University of Vilna ( or Vilnius ) in Polish Lithuania: Forster discussed the proposed Botany Bay colony in an article written in November 1786, “ Neuholland, und die brittische Colonie in Botany Bay ”.

Aoraki / Mount Cook, located on the South Island of New Zealand

The great triangle of Polynesia, connecting Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand, encompasses the island arcs and clusters of the Cook Islands, Marquesas Islands, Samoa, Society, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tuvalu and the Wallis and Futuna islands.

Sailing in 1772 with the Resolution, a vessel of 462 tons under his own command and the Adventure of 336 tons under Captain Tobias Furneaux, Cook first searched in vain for Bouvet Island, then sailed for 20 degrees of longitude to the westward in latitude 58 ° S, and then 30 ° eastward for the most part south of 60 ° S, a higher southern latitude than had ever been voluntarily entered before by any vessel.

In November 1774, Cook started from New Zealand and crossed the South Pacific without sighting land between 53 ° and 57 ° S to Tierra del Fuego ; then, passing Cape Horn on 29 December, he rediscovered Roché Island renaming it Isle of Georgia, and discovered the South Sandwich Islands ( named Sandwich Land by him ), the only ice-clad land he had seen, before crossing the South Atlantic to the Cape of Good Hope between 55 ° and 60 °.

Cook Island MP Teina Bishop said " New Zealand aid should have been sent to the devastated area much sooner.

Vancouver Island came to the attention of Britain after the third voyage of Captain James Cook, who spent a month during 1778 at Nootka Sound, on the island's western coast.

Consequently, Bering's name has since been used for the Bering Strait ( named by Captain James Cook despite knowledge of Dezhnev's earlier expedition ), the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and the Bering Land Bridge.

* London Island, an alternative name of Cook Island, Tierra del Fuego

The North Island ( Māori: Te Ika-a-Māui ) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait.

Coming from New Zealand in 1770, Captain James Cook in HM Bark Endeavour sighted land at Point Hicks, about 70 km west of Gabo Island, before turning east and north to follow the coast of Australia.

* Cook Island ( Tweed Heads )

The Brothers is a group of tiny islands in Cook Strait off the east coast of Arapawa Island.