James Cook

Also known as Captain James Cook, Captain Cook, James Cooke, Cook, James, James Marton Cook

British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)

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James Cook was a British explorer and naval officer in the 1700s who is famous for leading voyages across the Pacific Ocean and mapping previously uncharted regions including parts of Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii. His accurate charts and discoveries significantly expanded European knowledge of the Pacific world and made him one of history's most celebrated explorers.

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Works: 95

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Voyages of Captain James Cook
Remarks on the law of principal and factor
Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World - Volume I
Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World - Volume II
Journals of Captain Cook

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1931-01-22
Active to: 1964-12-11

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5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,587x
Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 67,213x
Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 65,134x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,734x
Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,278x

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Quotes

“I whose ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go ...”
“If I have failed in discovering a Continent it is because it does not exist.”

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Commons Creator page: James Cook
Commons category: James Cook
date of birth: 1728-11-07
date of death: 1779-01-01
Commons gallery: James Cook
name in native language: James Cook
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P8168: Hans Werner Olm
P12749: Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin

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Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779. He completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the main islands of New Zealand, and led the first recorded visit by Europeans to the east coast of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.

Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager before enlisting in the Royal Navy in 1755. He first saw combat during the Seven Years' War, when he fought in the Siege of Louisbourg. Later in the war he surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the St. Lawrence River during the Siege of Quebec. In the 1760s he mapped the coastline of Newfoundland and made important astronomical observations which brought him to the attention of the Admiralty and the Royal Society. This acclaim came at a pivotal moment in British overseas exploration, and it led to his commission in 1768 as commander of HMS Endeavour for the first of his three voyages.