Captain James Cook

(noun)

A British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy who made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

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Examples of Captain James Cook in the following topics:

  • Pre-European Hawaiian Art

    • Polynesians arrived there 1,000-2,000 years ago, and in 1778 Captain James Cook and his crew became the first Europeans to visit Hawaii (which they called the Sandwich Islands).
    • The art created in these islands may be divided into art existing prior to Cook's arrival; art produced by recently arrived westerners; and art produced by Hawaiians incorporating western materials and ideas.
    • Production of these styles of art continued after Cook's arrival, and a few craftsmen still produce traditional Hawaiian arts, either to sell to tourists or to preserve native culture.

  • Non-Native Hawaiian Art

    • Polynesians arrived there 1,000-2,000 years ago, and in 1778 Captain James Cook and his crew became the first Europeans to visit Hawaii.

  • Hawaiian Art with Western Influences

    • Polynesians arrived there 1,000-2,000 years ago, and in 1778 Captain James Cook and his crew became the first Europeans to visit Hawaii.

  • Crafts in the Cook Islands

    • Although Cook Islanders are citizens of New Zealand, they have the status of Cook Islands nationals, which is not given to other New Zealand citizens.
    • British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 and named the islands the Hervey Islands; the name "Cook Islands", in honor of Cook, appeared on a Russian naval chart published in the 1820s.
    • Woodcarving is a common art form in the Cook Islands.
    • Cook Islands women often described their tivaevae as being "something from the heart. "
    • Outline the art and history of the peoples of the Cook and Marquesas Islands

  • Tonga

    • In pre-contact Tonga, women did not do the cooking (cooking in an earth oven was hard, hot work, the province of men) or work in the fields.
    • In Captain Cook's time only the Tuʻi Tonga (king) was not, because he was too high ranked for anybody to touch him.

  • Colonial Australian Art

    • Sydney Parkinson, the Botanical illustrator on James Cook's 1770 voyage that first charted the eastern coastline of Australia, made a large number of such drawings under the direction of naturalist Joseph Banks.

  • English Architecture in the Northern Renaissance

    • The designation "Tudor style" is an awkward one, with its implied suggestions of continuity through the period of the Tudor dynasty and the misleading impression that there was a style break at the accession of Stuart James I in 1603.
    • The largest chimney was used for cooking.