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List of Australian places named by James Cook

List of Australian places named by James Cook

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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 major coastlines in the world unknown to Europeans at the time. Cook named many bays, capes and other geographic features, nearly all of which are still gazetted,[1] and most of which are still in use today, although in some places the spelling is slightly different. This is a list of the placenames he used in his first voyage listed from south to north as described on his 1773 chart[2] and in his journals.

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    Geoscience Australia, place name search
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    A Chart of New South Wales, or the east coast of New Holland. Cook, James, 1728–1779
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    Flinders, Matthew (1814), A Voyage to Terra Australis, London: G. and W. Nicol, entry for 3 February 1798
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    "Moreton Bay – bay (entry 22810)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
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    Beaglehole, J.C., ed. (1968). The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery, vol. I:The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768–1771. Cambridge University Press. p. 329. OCLC 223185477.
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    "Gazetteer". pages.quicksilver.net.nz. Archived from the original on 15 October 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
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    "Cape York – cape in the Shire of Torres (entry 38728)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
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    "Cape York Peninsula – peninsula in Shire of Cook (entry 6137)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
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    Beaglehole, J.C. (1968). Cook Journals vol.1. Cambridge: Hakluyt Society. p. cclxxxiii. ISBN 0851157440.
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    Cameron-Ash, M. (2018). Lying for the Admiralty: Captain Cook's Endeavour Vovage. Rosenberg. pp. 183, 190–195. ISBN 9780648043966.
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