Cook legacy and
Copley Medal and
monument to Cook in Tahiti
Russian Orthodox Church
Russians
Alaska and
Aleuts and
Cook’s encounter with
Cook’s letter delivered by, after his death
Sahlins, Marshall
St. Cuthbert’s Church, Cook’s baptism at
St. Lawrence River
St. Mary’s Church (Whitby), commemorative service at
St. Olave’s Church (London)
St. Paul’s Shadwell Church (London)
Salote, Queen of Tonga
Samoa
Samwell, David
Sanderson, William
Sand Point, Alaska
Sandwich, Earl of
places named after
Sandwich Island Institute
Sandwich Islands. See also Hawaii
Cook’s first contact with
Cook’s return to
Sandwich Sound
San Juan Islands
Sapp, Blossom
Satterly, John
Savage Island. See also Niue
Cook’s attempt to land on
naming of, by Cook
Niueans and name
Scottowe, Thomas
71st Parallel, crossed
Seward, William
sex in Hawaii
in New Zealand
in Tahiti
in Tahiti and Huahine
in Tonga
Shaishnikoff, Larry
Shakespeare
Shelikof Strait
Siberia
65th Parallel
Smith, Adam
Smith, Bernard
Smith, Isaac
Sobel, Dava
Society Isles
Solander, Dr. Daniel
reenactment at Cooktown and
Solomon Islands
Southeast Asia
southern continent (terra australis)
Cook demolishes fantasies of
search for, on first voyage
search for, on second voyage into
Antarctic
South Island, New Zealand
Cook and Maori on
Cook charts
Tasman on
South Pacific (musical)
Sparrman, Anders
Species Plantarum (Linnaeus)
Spöring, Herman
Staithes, Yorkshire
Stamp, Cordelia
Stamp, Tom
Stanner, W. E. H.
Starbuck, Valentine
Star Trek
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Storsch, Baron von
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Stubbs, George
Stubbs, Ian
Sutherland, Forby
Sydney, Australia
expunges memory of Cook
Sydney Harbour (formerly Port Jackson)
“taboo,”
kapu system in Hawaii
Tagaloailuga, Herman
Tahaa
Tahiti
Christianity and
contemporary
contemporary rural
Cook and beliefs and customs in
Cook charts
Cook first reaches
Cook’s near wreck in
Cook’s second voyage to
Cook’s summary description of
Cook’s third voyage to
disillusion of contempoarary visitors to
Dolphin discovers
early Polynesians sail to other islands from
Hawaii and
missionaries on
population decline in
as standard Cook judges other places by
Tahitians leave on Endeavour
venereal disease and
Tahitians
Aborigines vs.
Cook’s massage by
Cook on
Cook perplexed by
dancers
English sailors and need to connect
Hawaii and
language of
pronunciation of Cook
women
women, vs. men
Tahiti Nui (Great Tahiti)
Taiata (Tahitian servant)
death of
Talafo’ou, Tonga
Tales of the South Pacific (Michener)
Tangihaere, Tracey
Taputapuatea (marae on Raiatea)
Tartuffe (Molière)
Tasman, Abel
Tasmania
Aborigines killed in
Tasman never set foot in
tattoos
Taufa‘ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga
Te Horeta (Maori boy)
terra australis, see southern continent third voyage. See also Alaska; Arctic; Hawaii; Northwest Passage; Resolution, Cook’s third voyage and history of, proceeds to Cook’s widow
journal entries vanish
mission to find Northwest Passage proposed
troubles of
Thompson, John
Thornton, Clifford
Tierra del Fuego
tobacco
Aleuts and
Tahiti and
Tolaga Bay, New Zealand
audience with king of
bloodlines and temperament of
Christianity and
contemporary
contemporary government of
contemporary school on
Cook sites in
Cook’s first landing at
Cook’s gift of tortoise to
Cook’s search for rulers of
Hawaii and
National Center
Niue and
third voyage and
Tongatapu
Trafalgar, battle of
Trevenen, James
Truganini (last Tasmanian Aborigine)
Tuapa, Niue
Tu’itatui, King of Tonga (King-Strike-the-Knee)
Tupaia (Tahitian priest)
Aborigines and
Batavia and
Cooktown reenactment and
death of
leaves on Endeavour
Maori and
painting by
Tupouto’a, Crown Prince of Tonga
Turnagain passage
Tustumena (Alaskan ferry)
Tuvalu (atoll cluster)
Twain, Mark
Unalaska Island
archaeological sites on
contemproary, Aleuts at
contemporary, town of Unalaska
Cook arrives at
Cook on Aleuts at
Cook’s camp at English Bay
departure from, by plane
Museum of the Aleutians on
Unalga Pass
Unfortunate Cove, Newfoundland
United Nations
United States. See also America
Alaska purchased by U.S.
Hawaii annexed by U.S.
natives in, vs. Australia
State Department
Uturoa, Raiatea
Vaea, Baron
Vaitape, Bora-Bora
Vancouver, George
Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver Island
Vanuatu
Vava’u island, Tonga
Veniaminov, Ioann
Venus, transit of, in Tahiti
Vikings
Waipi’o Valley
Waitangi, Treaty of (1840)
amended, to compensate Maori
Wales, William
Walker, John
Cook’s letters to
Wallis, Samuel
Watman, William
Watson, Mary
Watt, Sir James
Wealth of Nations (Smith)
Weary Bay
Webber, John
Hawaii death of Cook painting
portrait of Cook
sketches of Unalaska
“Woman of Oonalashka,”
We
ir, Alexander
Wellington
Whitby, Yorkshire
Cook commemorative service in
Cook’s sea going and
Cook statue at
memorials to Cook in
Williamson, John (Cook’s lieutenant)
Williamson, Roger
Alaska and
Antarctica and
Australia and
Bora Bora and
continues to follow in Cook’s wake
Hawaii and
Huahine and
London and
Niue and
Raiatea and
Tahiti and
Tonga and
Yorkshire and
women
Aboriginal
Aleut
Hawaiian
Hawaiian, Cook bars contact with
Hawaiian, missionaries on Cook and
Maori, vs. Tahitian, Banks on
perspective of, in books about
Cook
Tahitian
Tongan
World War I
World War II
Yorkshire
Cook as hero in
Marton
Great Ayton
Staithes
Whitby
Young, Nick
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Horwitz, Tony, 1958–
Blue latitudes: boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before / Tony Horwitz.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (Backmatter: Selected Bibliography).
ISBN: 978-0-312-42260-8
1. Cook, James, 1728–1779—Journeys. 2. Voyages around the world. 3. Oceania—Discovery and exploration. 4. Horwitz, Tony, 1958–—Journeys—Oceania. 5. Endeavour II (Ship) I. Title.
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2002024133
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