• This is a list of Australian places named by James Cook. James Cook was the first navigator to chart most of the Australian east coast, one of the last...
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  • a list of places named after Captain James Cook (1728–1779), the British explorer. Cook Islands Cook County, New South Wales, Australia Division of Cook...
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    History". Oceans portal List of Australian places named by James Cook In today's terms, this equates to a valuation for Endeavour of approximately £265,000...
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    a list of New Zealand places named by James Cook. Cook was the first European navigator to circumnavigate and chart the archipelago. He chose names from...
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    Zealand places named by James Cook Australian places named by James Cook European and American voyages of scientific exploration Exploration of the Pacific...
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  • James Cook University (JCU) is a public university in North Queensland, Australia. The second oldest university in Queensland, JCU is a teaching and research...
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    town was named after Cook. The rugged Mount Cook (431 metres (1,414 ft)) was named by Phillip Parker King on 27 June 1818, after James Cook. It forms...
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    three long geographical tracks of named places dominate, being interrelated strings of significant places named and created by mythic characters on their...
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    Australia competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Australian athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games...
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    first contested at the 1969 Australian federal election and named after naval captain and explorer James Cook. It has been held by the Liberal Party for all...
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    were Cook Islanders, or of Cook Islands descent. The last Australian census recorded 28,000 Cook Islanders living in Australia, many with Australian citizenship...
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    Cape Byron (category Extreme points of Australia)
    Kosciuszko, the uppermost point on the Australian mainland. New South Wales portal List of Australian places named by James Cook "Cape Byron Headland Reserve"...
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  • James Cook University Singapore is a branch campus of James Cook University, a public research university based in Australia. Established in 2003, it is...
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    under the theory of "balancing hemispheres". Lieutenant James Cook, captain of HMS Endeavour, claimed the eastern portion of the Australian continent for...
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  • This is a list of places named after famous people in Australia: Adelaide, South Australia – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen Alice Springs, Northern Territory...
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  • For UK place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United Kingdom. For US place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United...
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  • number of places named after famous people. For more on the general etymology of place names see toponymy. For other lists of eponyms (names derived...
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    Cook's Landing Place is a heritage-listed site at Seventeen Seventy, Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. It is named after British explorer Lieutenant...
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  • James Cook (born 7 January 1974) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton, the Western Bulldogs and Melbourne in the Australian...
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  • This is a list of mythological places which appear in mythological tales, folklore, and varying religious texts. Bethulia (Christianity, Bible / old testament)...
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    tiny community of Marton, Queensland, Australia, upstream from Cooktown on the banks of the Endeavour River, was named after James Cook's birthplace in...
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    Mount Warning (category Use Australian English from January 2014)
    west-south-west of Murwillumbah, near the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Lieutenant James Cook saw the mountain from the sea and named it Mount...
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  • of Man and Channel Islands. While Anglo-Celtic Australians do not form an official ethnic grouping in the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Australian...
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    north coasts of the continent, as did French explorers. The most famous expedition was that of Royal Navy Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook 164 years...
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    Fingal Head, New South Wales (category Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2021 ID same as Wikidata)
    small off-shore Island (Cook Island) were first sighted by James Cook about 17:00 on 16 May 1770 (log date and time). At the time of the 2021 census, Fingal...
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  • Kauwae-a-Māui – named after an attempt by local Māori to abduct one of the crew of Capt. James Cook's ship Endeavour in 1769 Carterton (Taratahi) – named after...
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  • youngest Australian gold medallist of all time, aged 14 years and 6 months. Australia portal Olympics portal Australia at the Olympics Australian Olympic...
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    thought that no Australian (or New Zealand) athlete would be able to compete at the 1896 Summer Olympics, Edwin Flack, an Australian accountant and amateur...
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    female to hold the role for Australia. In May 2014 Australian Sports Minister Peter Dutton announced that 650 Australian athletes identified as medal...
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    Mainland Australia is the main landmass of the Australian continent, excluding the Aru Islands, New Guinea, Tasmania, and other Australian offshore islands...
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