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.

Just before the banana industry's largest strike in 1954, approximately 35, 000 workers held jobs on the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company ( later United Brands Company, then Chiquita Brands International ) or the Standard Fruit Company ( later brought by Castle and Cook, then Dole Food Company ).

Amundsen had problems and hesitation raising funds for the departure and upon hearing in 1909 that first Frederick Cook and then Robert Peary claimed the Pole, he decided to reroute to Antarctica.

Ron Cook, then 35, in the 1983 BBC Shakespeare production of the play, was closest in age, and bore some facial resemblance to the Society of Antiquaries portrait.

The most effective regime implemented by Cook was his prohibition against the consumption of fat scrubbed from the ship's copper pans, then a common practice in the Navy.

James Cook, with ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, first view O ' ahu then Kaua ' i in the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the Sandwich Islands.

Cook then went on to be a member of numerous other acts including Freak Power, Pizzaman and The Mighty Dub Katz to moderate success.

Cook then formed Freak Power with horn player Ashley Slater and singer Jesse Graham.

Cook then left the clinic at the end of March.

The latter included material written by Peter Cook, then a student at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

The voyage then progressed to Tahiti ( where the transit of Venus was observed, the overt purpose of the mission ), to New Zealand and to the east coast of Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River ( near modern Cooktown ) in Queensland, where they spent almost seven weeks ashore while the ship was repaired after becoming holed on the Great Barrier Reef.

Daley then made a successful run for Cook County Clerk and held that position prior to being elected Chicago's mayor.

Prior to serving as mayor, Daley served in the Illinois Senate and then as the Cook County State's Attorney.

Dr. John Raba, Medial Director of Cermak Health Services, the prison hospital in the Cook County Hospital system, later examined Wilson, determined his patient Wilson had been tortured, and quickly complained to then Chicago Police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek in a letter:

Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in the ground-breaking comedy revue Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s, and then became famous as half of the highly popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook.

Bennett then recommended him to the producer putting together Beyond the Fringe, a comedy revue, where he was to first meet Peter Cook.

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.

Cook until they open and then remove.

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.

Cook then turned northward to look for French Southern and Antarctic Lands, of the discovery of which he had received news at Cape Town, but from the rough determination of his longitude by Kerguelen, Cook reached the assigned latitude 10 ° too far east and did not see it.

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 °.

In three voyages Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe.

Having captured Louisbourg in 1758, the British sailed up to Quebec the following year thanks to charts drawn up by James Cook.

Much later, James Cook sailed around most of New Zealand in 1770, showing that even it could not be part of a large continent.

In November 1773, Cook left New Zealand, having parted company with the Adventure, and reached 60 ° S by 177 ° W, whence he sailed eastward keeping as far south as the floating ice allowed.

Vancouver had sailed as a midshipman with Cook.

In 1785, the Russian government of Catherine II commissioned a new expedition in search for the Northeast Passage, led by English officer Joseph Billings, who had previously sailed with Captain Cook, and the Russian officer Gavril Sarychev as his deputy.

Lieutenant James Cook became the first European to note the region when he sailed along the coast on 16 May 1770 in the HM Bark Endeavour.

British seafaring Captain James Cook, midway through his third and final voyage of exploration in 1778, sailed along the west coast of North America aboard the, mapping the coast from California all the way to the Bering Strait.

The First Fleet is the name given to the eleven ships that sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787 ( consisting of 10 civil officers, 212 Marines, including officers, additional 28 wives and 17 children of the marines, 81 free persons, 504 male convicts and 192 female convicts ; total free persons: 348, prisoners: 696 ; total 1044 ), to establish the first European colony in Australia, in the region which Captain Cook had named New South Wales.

These works are significant as they are the most informative illustrations of a Native American society of the Eastern seaboard, and predate the first body of " discovery voyage art " created in the late 18th century by the artists who sailed with Captain James Cook.

* South-eastern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland: Rolly Gilbert told of how Captain Cook and others sailed the oceans in a boat, and decided to come to see Australia.

* Victoria River ( Northern Territory ): it is told in a Captain Cook saga that Captain Cook sailed from London to Sydney to acquire land.

The islands were given their collective name and also English names by Captain Cook when he sailed through the area in 1770.

The Glass House Mountains were named by Captain James Cook as he sailed north up the coast of what is now Queensland in 1770 as part of his epic voyage aboard his ship HM Bark Endeavour.

During his first voyage of discovery James Cook sailed northwards along the east coast of Australia, landing at Botany Bay.

He sailed with Captain James Cook on the second and third of the great voyages and acted as cartographer.

The first European to see the future site of Napier was Captain James Cook, who sailed down the east coast in October 1769.

Captain James Cook, sailing in HM Bark Endeavour, sailed into the bay on 12 October 1769.

In 1770 Cook claimed the whole of eastern Australia for the British Crown, and sailed through the strait after proceeding up the eastern coast of the continent.

Sailing ship captains such as James Cook, who bypassed Milford Sound on his journeys for just this reason, also feared venturing too close to the steep mountainsides, afraid that wind conditions would prevent escape ( this refers to Doubtful Sound, so named as Cook thought it doubtful he would escape if he sailed in ).

Menzies claims he sailed the routes sailed by Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, while he was commanding officer of the diesel submarine between 1968 and 1970, a contention questioned by some of his critics.