Nicholas Young (sailor)

Nicholas Young (born c. 1757) was a British cabin boy aboard the Endeavour during Captain James Cook's first voyage of discovery.

In 1769, Cook named the headland Young Nick's Head in Poverty Bay, New Zealand after him.

[1] In The Remarkable Story of Andrew Swan,[a] it is stated that Young hailed from Greenock, on the Clyde.

[4][5] About 2 o'clock in the afternoon, one of our people, Nicholas Young, the surgeon's boy, descried a point of land of New Zealand from the starboard bow at about nine leagues distance bearing west by north.

[3][6] On 10 October 1969, a bronze statue of Nicholas Young was unveiled by Governor-General Sir Arthur Porritt at Churchill Park on Waikanae Beach, Gisborne as part of the Cook Bicentenary Celebrations.