Download coordinates as: 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.
However, the Admiralty's instructions[9] did not authorized Cook to annex New Holland (Australia), so there was no possession ceremony.
Cook re-wrote his hilltop signalling drill as a possession ceremony when he learnt that the French had preceded him across the Pacific.