He then sailed to New Zealand for the winter and in summer proceeded south again past the Antarctic Circle (66.5° South). James Cook comes from a relatively modest family. His father was a farmer, but as James grew older he began to feel the lure of the sea.
Under the guise of a "scientific expedition," Captain Cook was determined to plant the Union Jack at the South Pole! He grew up imbued with Newton's spinning global earth myth. Captain James Cook's Antarctic voyages are perhaps the least studied of all his remarkable travels. Mai, by William Hodges, Engraved by James Caldwall, 1777 Over the next three months, Cook ploughed through the Southern Ocean finding no sign of land. James Cook was born on October 27, 1728 in Marton, England.
Cook died in Hawaii in 1779 during a quarrel against the natives, when he commanded his third expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. Captain James Cook proceeded south from Africa and turned around after encountering large amounts of floating pack ice (he came within 75 miles of Antarctica). 42 quotes have been tagged as antarctica: C.B. In his voyage, he visited many islands in the southern Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/james-cook-3865.php James Cook did not discover Antarctica, as he was unable to reach the continent. He went south, crossing the Antarctic Circle on two occasions, before ice and cold drove him back. ! It was on this day that Captain James Cook (1728-1779), of His Majesty’s Ship Resolution, made the first recorded crossing of the Antarctic Circle in 1773 and, 139 years later, that the explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), with his five man team, reached the South Pole in 1912.
At around the age of 18 he took an apprenticeship as a merchant seaman. Today, 17 January, marks the anniversary of two major events in the history of Antarctic exploration. Cook: ‘Antarctica.
James Cook was tasked to find the Terra Australis continent, not just for circumnavigating Antarctica.
He is the second of eight children of James Cook, a Scottish farm servant and Grace Pace, English2. Captain James Cook was born the year after Newton went to meet the Creator of the flat earth.
That is why James Hamilton's gripping and scholarly study, which brings together the stories of Cook's Antarctic journeys into a single volume, is such an original and timely addition to the literature on Cook and eighteenth-century exploration.