Noun
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
Source: WordNetPolice stand guard at the statue of Captain Cook in Hyde Park. Source: Internet
These developments are part of the same debate about the defacing of statues commemorating Captain Cook, or Lachlan Macquarie, or colonialist Cecil Rhodes, and whether removing these monuments would amount to the erasure of history. Source: Internet
Let’s have a Captain Cook at it and get it done. Source: Internet
The former Captain Cook pub in Middlesbrough, built in 1893 and named because the famous explorer was allegedly born on the outskirts of the town, has stood boarded up for 10 years. Source: Internet