Captain James Cook RN
1728 - 1779

British naval explorer.
After surveying
the St Lawrence River in North
America 1759, he made three
voyages: 1768-71 to Tahiti, New
Zealand, and Australia; 1772-75 to
the South Pacific; and 1776-79 to the
South and North Pacific, attempting
to find the Northwest Passage and
charting the Siberian coast. He was
killed in Hawai