占士曲船長

占士曲船長係英國航海兼探險家，皇家海軍做上尉，佢係第一個歐洲人去到澳洲嘅東岸，同埋係首次有記錄嘅紐西蘭環島航行。

曲船長參海軍，時爲1755年，佢目睹七年戰爭，以致圍魁北克時，佢測量過聖羅倫斯河口，繪製地圖。

1779年曲船長同船員響第三次探索太平洋期間，同夏威夷島民打鬥，結果畀人打死。

榮譽 
 F.R.S. 
 科普利獎章 

用佢個名嘅地方 
 曲克群島：響南太平洋法屬波利尼西亞同斐濟之間
 曲海峽：響紐西蘭北島同南島之間

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出面網站 

'Cook, James (1728 - 1779)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp 243-244
 http://www.newendeavour.com - New Endeavour - a recent revisit of Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage
 Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
 James Cook Links Page
 Captain Cook Society
 JamesCook: Celebrated North Country Explorer
 Explorer voyage maps including those of James Cook
 The Endeavour journal (1) and The Endeavour journal (2), as kept by James Cook - digitised and held by the National Library of Australia
 Captain James Cook: The World's Explorer
 Life in the Pacific of the 1700s: The Cook/Forster Collection of the Georg August University of Göttingen exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, 23 February - 14 May 2006
 The South Seas Project: maps and online editions of the Journals of James Cook's First Pacific Voyage. 1768-1771, Includes full text of journals kept by Cook, Joseph Banks and Sydney Parkinson, as well as the complete text of John Hawkesworth's 1773 Account of Cook's first voyage.
 The Endeavour Replica A replica of Captain Cook's vessel.

Find-A-Grave profile for James Cook
 See a c. 1780 map of Cook's third voyage by Rigobert Bonne, Carte de la Côte N.O. de l'Amérique et de la Côte N.E. de l'Asie reconnues en 1778 et 1779 / par M. Bonne, Ingenieur-Hydrographe de la Marine hosted by the Portal to Texas History.
 Photos of James Cook monument at Halifax
 Discovery of New Zealand
 Cook's Voyages of Discovery - State Library of NSW
 Cook's Pacific Encounters: Cook-Forster Collection online Images and descriptions of more than 300 artefacts collected during the three Pacific voyages of James Cook.
 Into the Blue: Voyages of Discovery 1700-1850 An opportunity to hear the tales behind some of the most adventurous (and, in some cases, disastrous) seafaring journeys. Images include illustrations and atlases from famous names such as Captain Cook, Baron von Humboldt and Commodore Anson.

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