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A monument of the famous explorer Captain James Cook

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On the 200th year remembrance day for James Cook it was decided that the Endeavor would be placed on the New Zealand 50 cent coin.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLKwaXhEXBU

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James Cook's wife

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HMS Endeavor also called the HM Bark Endeavor, was a British Royal Navy research ship that Lieutenant James Cook commanded on his first voyage of discovery. Using the Endeavor on his first voyage of discovery to Australia and New Zealand from 1769-1771.

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Cooks botanist

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James Cook is a key figure in the history of New Zealand. On his first voyage he mapped the outline of the country's coast so thoroughly and and accurately that all the remaining  voyages of discovery, including his own second and third voyages, were merely to fill in the details and correct any minor errors. When Cook discovered New Zealand it in more than just a geographical sense. Having spent a total of 328 on the coast, he and those who joined him left a vivid and comprehensive visual and written record of the country's natural history. Few of the many new places discovered by Europeans were so comprehensively documented. The gentleman naturalist Joseph Banks sailed with Cook on the Endeavor during its 1768-7171 voyage. With more enough to indulge in his interests, Banks paid for another botanist Daniel Solander, and three draftsmen and/or artists to join the expedition. Mr Banks’s and Mr Solander’s collections of plants and their descriptions laid the foundations for modern New Zealand botany. Although Banks decided not to accompany Cook on his second voyage, he kept his interest in New Zealand until his death on the 19 June 1820.

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On his third voyage (1776-1779) Cook paid one final visit to New Zealand. He stayed from the 12-25 of February 1777 at Ship Cove in Queen Charlotte Sound calling it 'our old station' . Cook then departed sailing into the North Pacific. Cook was stabbed to death  in a unfortunate misunderstanding with the islanders at Kealakekau Bay, Hawaii, on the 14th of February 1779.

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After Cook made his two subsequent voyages into the pacific, New Zealand was no longer a place unknown to the Europeans. The first voyage in 1770 had proved that it as not a vast Southern land awaiting discovery. Josef Banks the naturalist on board the Endeavor had recorded that Cooks rounding of Stewart Island's South Cape had completely demolished " Our aerial fabrick called continent.". Yet there was still the unexplored ocean to the East of New Zealand, where a great new continent could lie. On his second voyage (1772–75) Cook used New Zealand as a base for probes both south and east that finally proved there was no such continent.

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Born on the 7th October 1728.

| At the age of 18 he was offered an apprenticeship by Quaker ship owner.

| 8th of October 1769 Cook landed at poverty bay New Zealand.

| 15th January 1770 anchored at ship cove in queen Charlotte sound.

| 1st April 1770 Cook sailed West to discover and chart the eastern coast of Australia.

| 13th July Cook sailed back to England having circumnavigated the world.

| 12-25 February 1777 Cook stayed at Queen Charlotte Sound calling it ‘ Our old station.’

| 25th of February 1777 sailed into the north Pacific heading for Hawaii.

| 14th February 1779 stabbed to death in an incident with the islanders at Kealakekua bay Hawaii

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Captain Cook departed Plymouth on the 26th August 1768 with a crew of 94 men sailing into the Pacific and around Cape Horn. He spent almost four months in Tahiti from mid-April up to mid-August he sailed the Endeavor into unknown, uncharted waters. On the 6th October 1769 cabin boy Nicholas Young sighted land.Two day later on the 8th October Cook landed at poverty bay.  But  unfortunate skirmishes that day and the next resulted in the death of several Maori. After those unfortunate deaths Cook sailed first South to Cape Turnagain,  then North pausing at both Tolaga bay and Anaura bay before rounding East Cape to Mercury bay. Cook spent a week in the Bay of Islands, he sailed around the top of the North Island during a harsh storm and then began to sail down the  West Coast of New Zealand. On the 15 of January 1770 he anchored at Queen Charlotte Sound located at the top of the South Island.  From a nice high point on Arapawa Island he gained his first view of the narrow strait that now known as Cook Strait. Sailing through the strait, he returned to Cape Turnagain to confirm that the North Island was indeed an island. Cook then sailed South heading down the east coast of the South Island and round the southern tip of Stewart Island. Observing the new land sometimes way out at sea, he made two famous mistakes Cook charted Banks Peninsula as a probable island and Stewart Island as a probable peninsula. He did not land again until he pulled into Admiralty Bay, D’Urville Island, on 27 March 1770 in order to get more wood and water.  On the 1st April 1770 Cook sailed west to discover and chart the eastern coast of Australia. He reached Batavia (Jakarta) on 11 October and returned to England, having circumnavigated the globe, on 13 July 1771.

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James Cook was extremely adventurous
and took many risks, one of which resulted in him being stabbed to death by some natives in Hawaii.  Cook was also a gentleman trying his best to make friends and help as many people as possible.

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James Cook became the first European to define the true outline of New Zealand thanks to his highly detailed maps and drawings. He was born on 7 of October 1728 in Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, England. James Cook was was born as the son of Scottish farmhand. While he was a teenager he helped his father run the farm the lived on. He did this till the age of 18 when he was offered an apprenticeship from a Quaker ship owner in a small seaside village near Whitby in England. This experience as a ship apprentice proved to be fortuitous for the to be naval officer and explorer, as it brought him in contact with both ocean and ships along port.