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[[[> IMG:captainjamescook.jpg ]]] * Born: 1728 Marton, near Middlesborough. * Died: 1779 Attacked and killed by natives in Hawaii. Three expeditions: * First to observe the Transit of Venus in Tahiti ** Subsequently also discovered New Zealand and Australia's East coast * Second and third carried K1 ** K1 was a copy of H4, the clock that John Harrison created to solve the Longitude Problem. ** Initially sceptical, he came to call it 'my trusty friend the watch'. Became a Fellow of the Royal Society. ---- One of the Famous People on this site. ---- * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook