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	Cook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Division of Cook, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales.
		Electoral district of Cook is an electoral district in Queensland for the Queensland Legislative Assembly
		Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands, the central island of the Southern Thule group (southernmost of the South Sandwich)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cook (243 words)

	Cook, South Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cook (30°36′S 130°24′E) is a railway station and crossing loop on the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway from Adelaide to Perth, with no inhabited places around.
		Cook is the only scheduled stop on the Nullarbor Plain for the Indian Pacific passenger train across Australia and has little other than curiosity value for the passengers.
		Cook is on the longest stretch of straight railway in the world, at 479 km.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cook,_South_Australia (252 words)

	Captain James Cook
		Cook was on the Northumberland in May 1760, surveying the St Lawrence, and had acquired a considerable knowledge of marine surveying, as his chart of the river, which is still in existence, shows.
		Cook prepared many of his charts for publication, and it is a tribute to their excellence that they were not finally superseded for over 150 years.
		Cook's account of the 1766 eclipse of the sun had impressed the council of the Royal Society, and on 26 May 1768 he was promoted lieutenant and given command of the expedition.
	www.australiaexplorers.com /jamescook.html (2703 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: James Cook
		James Cook was born in the Yorkshire village of Marton on October 27, 1728.
		Cook's skill as a seaman and navigator cannot be challenged...through heavy storms and dangerous seas filled with huge icebergs the RESOLUTION survived without the loss of a single man. On January 30 he reached his furthest south but could go no further.
		Cook's reputation was unchallenged and with his conclusion one can assume that all further exploration would have been unnecessary except for one detail...he kept thorough records of his sailing.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000071.htm (1714 words)

	South Australia
		South Australia, while not being a part of Cook's original annexation of the east coast of Australia, was, in part, included in Captain Phillip's formal possession of the whole of the eastern part of the Australian continent on 26 January 1788.
		In 1832, Wakefield argued that this new colony, unlike New South Wales, should not become 'a colony where immigration is left to chances or consists of the scum of the Mother Country, comparitively useless as labourers, and incapable from the disproportion of the sexes from becoming the parents of a numerous progeny'.
		The population of South Australia was estimated at 1,474,400 in 1996, 8.1% of the Australian total.
	www.fitzsimons.info /david/saintro.html (967 words)

	James Cook: British Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
		Cook's first journey lasted from August 26,1768 to July 13, 1771, when he sailed to Tahiti on the Endeavor in order to observe Venus as it passed between the Earth and the Sun (this is called the transit of Venus).
		Cook sailed to New Zealand on October 6,1769, where he and his crew fought with the Maori (the earliest inhabitants of New Zealand) and mapped much of the two major islands (the strait between these two islands is now named Cook Strait) and showed that is was not part of a larger southern continent.
		Cook arrived at Capetown, South Africa, on October 18, 1776, and sailed to the Indian Ocean and on to New Zealand (in early 1777), the Cook Islands, and Tonga.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/page/c/cook.shtml (826 words)

	Australian Universities and colleges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Australia's forty government-funded universities have a reputation for quality education; indeed, these institutions are controlled by both State and Federal legislation, and receive both accreditation and registration to provide courses for international students.
		Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world, but much of the country remains sparsely populated, providing a home for many of Australia's unique plants and animals.
		Of Australia's population, 7.3 million people were either born outside Australia or are children of parents born overseas, making Australia one of the most multicultural nations on earth.
	www.studyoverseas.com /australian.htm (370 words)

	Cook Islands Government Online
		The indigenous population of the Cook Islands is the Cook Islands Maori, Polynesians closely related ethnically to the indigenous populations of Tahiti and nearby islands and to the New Zealand Maori (see below).
		According to the latest census undertaken in December 2002 the total resident population of the Cook Islands is 18,027 of whom 12,188 live in the outer islands.
		Seventy eight percent of the Cook Islands’ fl pearl farms are on Manihiki, 20 percent on Penrhyn and 2 percent on Rakahanga.
	www.cook-islands.gov.ck /cook-islands.php (2625 words)

	Captain James Cook
		Cook, popularly called Capt. Cook, was born in Marton, England, the son of a farm laborer.
		In 1768, as lieutenant in command of the Endeavour, he undertook his first great voyage to the South Pacific, on which he safely carried a group of British astronomers to the recently discovered island of Tahiti to observe the transit of the planet Venus across the sun in June 1769.
		Cook's insistence on proper hygiene and diet greatly reduced the number of scurvy cases during the expedition.
	members.tripod.com /virtaus4/volume6/explorers/james_cook.htm (631 words)

	South West Pacific Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, New Zealand, Fiji Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The island of Vatulele sits south of the Coral Coast and is famous for its tapa cloth, sacred red prawns and rock paintings.
		The Cook Islands are a stunning necklace of islands in the sun and many believe they are the jewel in the crown of the South Pacific island groups.
		Cook Islanders share a genuine care for others and although now Christian, the old culture lives on with song, dance and an easy pace of life uncomplicated by the turmoil and hustle and bustle of today's outside world.
	www.southwestpacific.com (1279 words)

	Captain James Cook \| British Navigator and Explorer
		Cook was an apprentice to a shipping company at age 18, and joined the British Navy at 27 in 1755.
		During his return trip to England in 1771, Cook was the first ship commander to prevent the outbreak of scurvy, by serving his crew fruit and sauerkraut to prevent the disease.
		On February 14, 1779 Cook was stabbed to death by Hawaiian natives while investigating a theft of a boat by an islander.
	www2.lucidcafe.com /lucidcafe/lucidcafe/library/95oct/jcook.html (742 words)

	Pictures of Australia
		Australia is a relatively flat continent, and the height of these mountains pales in comparison with other mountain ranges of the world.
		Cook is credited with discovering the eastern coast of Australia and claiming the continent for Great Britain.
		Cook also is known for many other expeditions to islands in the South Pacific, including trips to New Zealand, Tahiti and Easter Island.
	maps.unomaha.edu /Peterson/funda/Pictures/Australia/Australia.html (817 words)

	European discovery and the colonisation of Australia - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
		Cook claimed the east coast under instruction from King George III of England on 22 August 1770 at Possession Island, naming eastern Australia 'New South Wales'.
		The British province of South Australia was established in 1836, and in 1842 it became a crown colony.
		On January 1 1912, the Northern Territory was separated from South Australia and became part of the Commonwealth of Australia.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/australianhistory (2175 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Australia
		Eventually, the Commonwealth of Australia was formed in 1901 with a federation of six states: New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Queensland.
		The nationhood of Australia was forged on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey on April 25,1915.
		Australia cemented its bond to the United States by participating in the Korean War in the early 1950s and the Vietnam War a decade later.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/australia (1099 words)

	Cook Islands Government Online
		The Cook Islands remains part of the Realm of New Zealand and Queen Elizabeth II is Head of State of the Cook Islands.
		In the early 1990s the Cook Islands and New Zealand agreed that given the evolution of their free association relationship since 1965 to one based on international law and conventional diplomatic practice, it was appropriate to place military exercises on a more formal basis.
		The SPEC Agreement, signed by Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, New Zealand, Tonga and Western Samoan in 1973, was the first treaty in which the Cook Islands and New Zealand participated as separate but equal parties.
	www.cook-islands.gov.ck /history.php (1983 words)

	CAPTAIN COOK, AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS, JAMES COOK, EXPLORERS TO AUSTRALIA, FOUNDERS OF AUSTRALIA, DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA
		Cook was promoted to the rank of commander when he returned to England in 1771.
		Cook returned to England in 1775, where he was made a member of the Royal Society and was also awarded the Copley medal for his scientific achievement.
		Cook always insisted that hygiene and diet were kept to the optimum, which resulted in minimal numbers of scurvy cases amongst the crew during the journey.
	www.australianexplorer.com /australian_explorers.htm (507 words)

	Australia travel guide
		Australia is a land of contrasts - topographical, cultural, physical, meterological and visual.
		Australia has also discovered the value of the Aboriginal culture and uses it to sell trinkets to a strong tourist market.
		While Australia is a nation in its own right, it is also a technically a continent, with large differences between regions.
	www.world66.com /australiaandpacific/australia (930 words)

	Coolgardie, West Australia - www.surgent.net
		The train left that night and made the overnight journey to Adelaide in South Australia, arriving in the early morning.
		When I awoke the next morning we were still way the heck away from Kalgoorlie in the middle of South Australia.
		Cook, on the other hand, has about 500 people, and my guess is that most people who live here work for the railroad.
	www.surgent.net /other/coolgardie.html (906 words)

	South Australia - The Festival State - Goway Travel Experiences
		South Australia's internationally acclaimed wines are reason enough to visit this southern state, but they're just the tip of the iceberg.
		LOCATION The State of South Australia is flanked on the West, North and East by common boundaries with all mainland States, and to the south by the Southern Ocean.
		LANDFORM: South Australia is a land of generally low relief, the inland area being largely covered by plains, sand and gibber deserts.
	www.goway.com /downunder/australia/saus/index.html (487 words)

	Captain James Cook Through Stamps
		The death of Cook and use of depictions of it on stamps.
		The Captain Cook Study Unit has illustrations of some from the last decade and a great downloadable file (pdf) of all the stamps ever issued.
		This depiction of Cook is based on the statue and is no doubt from a photograph of it in place, explaining the strange upward view.
	www.100megsfree3.com /glaw/cook/index.htm (1720 words)

	Lonely Planet's Guide to Cook Islands
		The island itself is a geological curiosity: it is surrounded by ring of raised fossilised coral and has a flat-topped, 70m (230ft) hill in the middle.
		The atoll of Suwarrow is one of the best known in the Cook Islands due to a prolonged visit by one man: New Zealand author Tom Neale.
		Suwarrow is especially popular among yachties because it's one of the few atolls in the northern Cooks with an accessible lagoon.
	webcenter.travel.aol.com /travel/lonely_planet/australia_and_south_pacific/cook_islands/obt.html (339 words)

	Captain Cook, Chinese Explorers, and the "Discovery" of Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It turns out that the Chinese regularly journeyed to the Australia as early as the ninth century to mine copper, and fifteenth-century Chinese voyages of exploration led directly to the maps Cook used.
		Cook was a great man, and the greatest navigator of all time, but he discovered neither New Zealand nor Australia.
		The Jean Rotz map was in possession of the British Admiralty when Cook set sail, and Joseph Banks, who sailed with Cook, had acquired another of the finest, the Harleian (Dauphin), showing Australia with the same precision as the Rotz map.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /australia/menzies1.html (456 words)

	Monaro Volcanic Province, New South Wales, Australia
		The Monaro Volcanic Province in southeastern New South Wales, Australia.
		Pieces of fossilized wood in the layers indicate a cool, wet climate in the geologic past for the area of Australia.
		O'Reilly, S.Y., and Zhang, Ming, 1995, Geochemical characteristics of lava-field basalts from eastern Australia and inferred sources: connections with the subcontinental lithospheric mantle?: Contributions to Mineralogy and petrology, v.
	volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/volc_images/australia/monaro.html (671 words)

	South Australia Holiday, Adelaide Holidays - South Australia Accommodation & Hotels
		The choice is staggering: meet the locals in friendly bush pubs up north; taste globe-trotting wines at cellars doors across the south; watch whales in the west and mooch on the Murray in the east.
		South Australia has many diverse tourism regions – and all are within an easy day's drive of Adelaide.
		Dine in divine restaurants and taste some of Australia's best cool climate wines, find stunning views and award-winning places to stay.
	www.southaustralia.visitorsbureau.com.au (261 words)

	Academics - University Study in Australia: James Cook University
		James Cook University is one of Australia's top research universities, highly regarded for its excellence in tropical research, marine science and biology, and environmental science.
		Each subject at James Cook University is worth 3 or 4 points, which is worth 4 US semester credits.
		Engineering—Because of James Cook University's unique geographic location, it is has a reputation for being a leader in matters relating to the tropics.
	www.umabroad.umn.edu /programs/ASIA/australiaJamesCook/academics.shtml (794 words)

	AUSTRALIA
		Australia was inhabited, perhaps by boat across the waters from the Indonesia archipelago.
		On January 26, 1788 (now celebrated as Australia Day), the First Fleet under Capt. Arthur Phillip landed at Sydney, and formal proclamation of the establishment of the Colony of New South Wales followed on February 7.
		Australia passed the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act on October 9, 1942, which officially established Australia's complete autonomy in both internal and external affairs.
	www.goodnewsmedia.com /australia (639 words)

	Radio Australia - News - South Cook Islands brace for cyclone
		Australia increases aid to Cook Islands in wake of cyclone > [26/02/2005]
		The Cook Islands of Rarotonga and Mangaia are preparing for the passage of Tropical Cyclone Percy.
		The cyclone has been tracking a south-southeasterly course, but is due to turn southeasterly taking it to within 320 kilometres of the two islands.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1315608.htm (246 words)

	USA Hotel - Captain Cook Hotel Alaska USA
		Located in what is now the bustling hub of America's gateway to the Pacific Rim, the Captain Cook Hotel caters to the international traveler, dignitary, business traveler and tourist with the service and meticulous attention to detail for which the Hotel is justly famous.
		Captain Cook Hotel is Alaska's only member of Preferred Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, an organization of over 100 of the finest independently owned and managed luxury hotels and resorts in North and South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe.
		Designed in the rich tradition of the Hotel Captain Cook, the business center is outlined with a distinctive rock wall, teakwood trim and copper ceiling, providing a quiet, comfortable place to work.
	www.southtravels.com /america/usa/captaincookhotel/index.html (884 words)

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