Before you speak upon upon ancient explorers or old presidents presidents being great great at something you should Speak on the atrocities they committed
Yes, Captain Cook was a great Explorer, maybe the best ever. I don't know. But I do believe he is the greatest cartographer ever. Without a doubt. His ability to map that part of the world with relatively simple tools is just astounding.
I've long since held the view that maps were the most lethal of the weapons that Europe brought to the 'new World.' Indigenous people's might have eventually overcome the disease, metallurgy, and firearms brought to bear on them ... but they had no defence what-so-ever against little pieces of paper which defined and laid claim to their vast lands in intricate detail. Thoughts?
Interesting seeing this from a British PoV after having moved to the UK from Australia. Growing up in Sydney, James Cook is possibly the most famous historical figure that you learn about as a kid, and he dominates history lessons in primary school. He's basically like a founding father. Whereas in this video it's just a vague sidenote that he went there.
This White man view of history is very dated. The future will be much more impressed Polynesian navigation & navigators like Tupaia on whom Cook relied will have the billing they deserve.
lol I lived in australia for a decade and you ask any aboriginal or any non white kiwi such as the maori and you get a very different picture, more of a prick they are happy he was killed
We not only learnt about Captain Cook in primary school but all the way thru high school as well, well in my high school anyway. We used to have a discovery/educational park where i am & it was called Old Sydney Town. It took us back in time to teach us about the early life if Straya & as soon as ud walk thru the gate it truly transformed us into a different world. Every year all thru primary & high school we'd go there for excursions & we loved it whether we were 5 & in kindy or 15 in year 10. Unfortunately Old Sydney Town closed about 15/20yr ago which was a real shame, they'd even do bush dances on the wknd nights & even as a little girl it was so much fun.
As a born and raised Hawaiian I grew up with Captain Cook as a great part of our state history. As a child I had been to the monument for Captain Cook several times. And it's still one of those things everyone wonders where his bones are hidden.
IIRC the specific orders Cook was given for one of his five-year voyages were to "seek out new lands and new civilizations, and boldly go where no man has gone before," which is where Star Trek got it.
@@theoutlook55 I remember reading it somewhere but don't remember where. I'm not pretending to be a definitive source here, if that's what you're after.
Comically there is a strip club in Australia called Love & Rockets that now uses "bodly go where no man has gone before" as their slogan. Obviously more a tip to Star Treck than Cook, but it's interesting to see how a phrase can permeate across the globe and last for centuries.
@@badluck5647 He's also done videos on Kinder Joy eggs, Exploding Head Syndrome, and a war crime so bad that even the Nazis were disgusted by it. And he doesn't remember making any of them based on the sheer volume of content he's involved in.
Fun Fact: There is a town in Queensland, Australia, called 1770 as it is where Cook set foot on Australia. The fun fact (besides it being a beautiful, quiet coastal town to holiday in) is it's the only place in the world named after a year.
About 200km north of where I live in Cairns, Queensland (Cairns is about 1780km north of Brisbane and about 2600km north of Sydney) is the seaside town called Cooktown. It was where Captain Cook Beached the HMS Endeavour with Botanist Joseph Banks on the 6th June 1770. He landed there because the Endeavour ran aground on the reef near where Cooktown is today. He stayed in the area for 6months
it was always nuts to me, i'm a Samoan man who grew up learning about cook in the states. moved over to the big island and they actually have a monument erected where Cook was killed and eaten. it was borderline surreal
@@221b-l3t its a whole recipe on cooking Haole XD. wrap in Banana leaves, cook over hot coal. flip once and bury for 6 hours. coincedentally its the same way they cook pig.
The simple steel dagger that Cook was stabbed with was very special to the natives because they weren't smart enough to smelt even the softest metals for themselves. The fact that they would erect a monument to their own barbarism only further confirms that European conquest was the best thing that ever happened to them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@ajm2872 you got to realize Hawaii is still a baby compared to the mainland. I doubt metals and iron even formed yet in Hawaii at that time because the islands were only a few hundreds of years old. Thats why they use the next sharpest thing the islands could provide which is shark teeth
So he was actually eaten? I thought they removed all of his skin as traditional funerary rights usually reserved for the chiefs or higher people in society. I’ve still not started watching the vid, just came to the comments first.
I'm a grown man. I'm watching intellectual, educational content from one of my favorite UA-camrs, and yet I still giggle like a schoolboy at Simon speaking the words "seaman's apprentice."
Regarding 14:50, William Bligh was the sailing master on the HMS Resolution and accompanied Captain James Cook on July 12, 1776 during Cook's third voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Thirteen years later, William Bligh was in command of the HMS Bounty when Fletcher Christian infamously mutinied on April 28, 1789. Seventeen years later William Bligh became the fourth Governor of New South Wales on August 13, 1806 and was deposed on January 26, 1808.
I was born and raised not far from his home village. Captain Cook is still regarded as something of a hero here, they even named a hospital after him. I was a little surprised (at first) to see how he is vilified in some parts of the world but all things considered it's understandable.
I’m actually very impressed with him more than what i learnt in australia growing up. He seems a decent man for the times, and what killed him was a loss in cultural translation, not malice or subjugation of people for his own gain. I am sad that he didn’t live out his life in peace. More proud than ever that we see him as a hero in Australia.
As an Aussie I don't see him as a hero or a villain. Just an explorer who happened upon Botany Bay at one point and went up the east coast. Nothing more nothing less. A remarkable man nonetheless for his sense of adventure - whether you are indigenous or not, a reasonable person could appreciate that.
Lol, I'm moving from Hilo to Anchorage soon ('aina isn't going to be livable for poor people much longer, meaning anyone not able to afford property prices and energy). I wonder if he's as popular with the locals in AK as in HI. I suspect so.
The small village that Cook was born in is called Marton and over the years the modern town of Middlesbrough grew around it. The town has several things named in his honour including the main hospital and the James Cook birthplace museum.
Do Matthew Flinders next. He circumnavigated and mapped the Australian mainland coastline, gave the country its name, had his maps stolen by the French on his way home during the Napoleonic Wars and his remains were recently re-discovered during the the expansion of Euston station for HS2 and were re-buried.
William Bligh actually wasn't that bad, he was a competent Captain and far less flog happy than his peers, but more likely to scold and scream at subordinates. He was the Gordon Ramsey of his time.
I was born in newzealand, as were my parents. I was taught very little about cook, it seems strange that a man who is very impressive and obviously important to the history of newzealand is seen as a negative figure instead of the inspiring, national hero he should be regarded as.
@MR Blaze Pukka I bet you believe Columbus discovered America? How can you discover something when people are already there and also the Vikings was there a lot longer before Columbus.
@@taylahartemink5336 Because the word discovery does not imply that no one ever knew about it, just that you and the people you know didn't know about it. Kind of like how people talk about "discovering" a new restaraunt, when clearly others would know about its existence. Arguing against the word "discovery" is pure semantics to avoid acknowleding that connecting the landmasses of the world together is a pretty damn impressive feat.
LOL I'm surprised you didn't mention the Earl of Sandwich's most famous legacy, the sandwich. And no, this isn't a joke. He did create the sandwich. :-)
Simon could you consider doing a story about Ann Dixon who traveled solo by dog sled from the northeast of Alaska to Nova Scotia Canada along 2500 miles of uninhabited frozen coast. A huge trip that had many dangers that took two years. Also other dog stories. 1.The professional dog sled racing. America vs Europe. Iditarod vs Yukon Quest. Short, medium, long distance race (Long is the premier category). Medical tests for dogs to enter. Training (fitness) for dogs and human. Lead dogs know left and right. 2.Cynocephaly 3,Modern dog training techniques vs old. Dogs that can smell covid, cancer, insect larvae in timber etc. look up Steve Austin and his work with Tasmania customs inspecting disembarking passengers. 4.Dogs (or other animals) used in experiments. Dogs used by pavlov (asshole) in his experiments were so cruel, but nobody knows what disgusting things he did to his subjects. Russian space dogs. PS There is a statue of Cook in Anchorage Alaska looking out over the harbor. Do you know about Cook's cottage moved to Melbourne. PPS Cook is not to popular in Australia in some circles. Statues get graffitied. See invasion day.
I am writing this prior to watching and I’m curious as to how he describes cooks history in the Hawaiian islands as I’m a kanaka ma’oli and I am very proud of my people’s culture and history
Great video! Would be very interested in a George B. McClellan video. Just finished a 30 page research paper and would love to hear some things that I missed in my research!
So I learned that Banks wanted to become a household name by travelling to Tahiti, so went to his friend the Earl of Sandwich for help. Then, Sandwich became the household name simply by putting his lunch between a couple of slices of bread.
That reminds me of a play I read about, but didn't see, I think by Steve Martin. It involves Picasso and Einstein and other historical luminaries of their era. Another character is a complete nonentity, with no particular accomplishment, who achieves immortality by being the first person to say "Cheese" while having his picture taken. (At least that's how I remember it).
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I remember an Englishman of the Royal Navy, maybe a captain in the 17/18th century, who ended up being sacked, and then he went on to single handedly liberate Chile from the Spanish (I think), Many South American colonies were also liberated by the same man, and there’s at least one road in each place named after him
There is a park quite near me it was where James Cook was born . Its now a public park. There is a museum all about his journey and life. Its quite good.
Here's a side fact the small yorkshire village name is Marton which the new zealand town i currently live in is name after as tribute to captian James cook
@@MakinaMakinaMakina Marton was a separate hamlet/village in the 1700's you fool. It was only adopted into the Boro as late as the 1950's. You obviously skipped school a lot, like most smoggies.
James cook grew up in a very small area that I am from called Marton it was a standalone village back then but now built up in a town called Middlesbrough. It’s crazy to think the most famous explorer of all time lived in the same area as me once over. The local hospital has his name. There’s museums of him in every part of the town. A replica ship of the endeavour in the town hall. It’s literally just genuinely crazy how after all this time he is still so famous. He had a brutal end but undeniably an amazing career at sea. I sometimes walk to the captain cook monument as it’s at the highest point of the town. Middlesbrough is virtually unknown around the world but the history is so famous from the steel works to the greatest voyager to Ever live.
Song from my Brisbane childhood: Captain Cook, The dirty old chook. Sailed around Australia. Lost his pants, In the middle of France ... And found them in Tasmania
His voyages were incredible feats sailing into the unknown . Even if done in modern day ships the voyages would be daunting but to be done totally on the power of sail is astounding.
I mean, modern sailing boats making these journeys all the time. What is impressive is he did it with no knowledge of where he was going or weather forecasts etc
Hello Simon...mind if I binge watch some of your work!😃.... im "follicley challenged" myself,but I got a nice shaped head ,so I'm happy with it!!..." Namaste"!!
Exploration back then had to be so much fun. Making first time discoveries on your journey must have felt priceless. Nowadays just about everything unique on Earth has been explored and discovered, space is now the new frontier for explorers.
Thank you for a well-written and narrated mini biography of a man who personified the best and the worst of the British empire. In just a few minutes, with some well-selected still images, you provided an overview of an exceptional man who made the mistake of believing his flatterers, who proclaimed he was the most legendary of explorers. What sealed his fate was his lack of respect for indigenous cultures to whom he became emboldened. This cost him his life, but did not enlighten the British aristocracy about the consequences of exploiting “primitive” peoples. And so followed Britain’s ruthless conquest of what were to become its colonies, including the enslavement of Africans to harvest the sugar cane in the West Indies that was yet 0:02 😊another source of wealth for this small kingdom in the North Atlantic. Similarly, the British used opium harvested in India to addict Chinese and create a subservient class. It would be unfair to judge Cook by present-day standards. While acknowledging his severe limitations in dealing respectfully with other cultures, his audaciy should also given due credit. His skills as an explorer and his vision for what colonies could offer, established a tradition of British exploitation of faraway lands, while at the same time relegating to them British parliamentary tradition, and compared with the Spanish, Portuguese, and Belgians, an opportunity for a colonial worker to have something resembling a good life. Britain’s empire enriched a few aristocratic families, but it was not until much later the British took to heart the savage death of this great explorer and gave colonies their freedom .
Cook is being targeted by the cancel culture. Don’t get sucked in. True his last voyage was a disaster, mostly. He hadn’t prepared anything like for the previous ones. Some say he was already sick and didn’t want to go but didn’t have options. He just got sicker. The reason people who knew him (including locals) were so shocked by how things ended was how different his behaviour and judgement became. The last voyage was in secret as Britain didn’t have rights to explore the west coast of North America with made the trip even more stressful for him. An example of his usual conduct with locals was his disgust at fur traders getting sealers etc addicted to tobacco, something they couldn’t obtain except by trade with them. After his killing there were apologies from both sides on an incident that got out of hand for all. But that shouldn’t be used to cancel his whole life.
So much to learn from the life of James Cook! I enjoyed reading all the comments, some of which seemed rather vindictive. He was actually quite beneficent towards the indigenous peoples some might say paternalistic. During the second voyage, several English sailors were cannibalized by Maori in New Zealand. When Cook returned there on the third voyage, he met peacefully with the same natives. The fact that he suffered the same fate is ironic. But when the Hawaiian natives ate his heart, they were acknowledging his greatness and wanted to have some for themselves.
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I never heard about him...
I can't imagine Simon with hair. He rocks the bold and bearded look for sure.
Can do a video on the Sea People on one of your 2 dozen channels?
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Before you speak upon upon ancient explorers or old presidents presidents being great great at something you should Speak on the atrocities they committed
“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again”
James Cook
Yes, Captain Cook was a great Explorer, maybe the best ever. I don't know. But I do believe he is the greatest cartographer ever. Without a doubt. His ability to map that part of the world with relatively simple tools is just astounding.
Dora the Explorer was better.
"Can you say map?"
I would submit Neil Armstrong's name for consideration if we're discussing greatest explorers ever
C D~Dora is a fictional character. Cook was real.
@@JohnnyOTGS It's obviously a joke.
Anyone can tell you Dora is a cartoon.
I've long since held the view that maps were the most lethal of the weapons that Europe brought to the 'new World.' Indigenous people's might have eventually overcome the disease, metallurgy, and firearms brought to bear on them ... but they had no defence what-so-ever against little pieces of paper which defined and laid claim to their vast lands in intricate detail.
Thoughts?
Interesting seeing this from a British PoV after having moved to the UK from Australia. Growing up in Sydney, James Cook is possibly the most famous historical figure that you learn about as a kid, and he dominates history lessons in primary school. He's basically like a founding father.
Whereas in this video it's just a vague sidenote that he went there.
I happen to live in the suburb of Bankstown, named after good ol Joseph Banks
This White man view of history is very dated. The future will be much more impressed Polynesian navigation & navigators like Tupaia on whom Cook relied will have the billing they deserve.
lol I lived in australia for a decade and you ask any aboriginal or any non white kiwi such as the maori and you get a very different picture, more of a prick they are happy he was killed
@@naughtynedflanders434 the Banksia was also named after Joseph Banks
We not only learnt about Captain Cook in primary school but all the way thru high school as well, well in my high school anyway. We used to have a discovery/educational park where i am & it was called Old Sydney Town. It took us back in time to teach us about the early life if Straya & as soon as ud walk thru the gate it truly transformed us into a different world. Every year all thru primary & high school we'd go there for excursions & we loved it whether we were 5 & in kindy or 15 in year 10. Unfortunately Old Sydney Town closed about 15/20yr ago which was a real shame, they'd even do bush dances on the wknd nights & even as a little girl it was so much fun.
As a born and raised Hawaiian I grew up with Captain Cook as a great part of our state history. As a child I had been to the monument for Captain Cook several times. And it's still one of those things everyone wonders where his bones are hidden.
Same here in his home town of Whitby where you can still visit the house he lived in as an apprentice seaman.
@@ToastieBRRRN Whitby wasn’t his home town, it was marton in middlesbrough
@@MakinaMakinaMakina I know that but it's also considered his home since he spent a majority of his life there.
@@ToastieBRRRN Still not American though.
@@MakinaMakinaMakina What's not American?
IIRC the specific orders Cook was given for one of his five-year voyages were to "seek out new lands and new civilizations, and boldly go where no man has gone before," which is where Star Trek got it.
Truly?
@@theoutlook55 I remember reading it somewhere but don't remember where. I'm not pretending to be a definitive source here, if that's what you're after.
@@kentchamberlain5720 thanks for your honesty. 👍🏿
Comically there is a strip club in Australia called Love & Rockets that now uses "bodly go where no man has gone before" as their slogan. Obviously more a tip to Star Treck than Cook, but it's interesting to see how a phrase can permeate across the globe and last for centuries.
More Roman and Greek Biographics.
We also know how much Simon loves those topics.
You’d think Simon would know enough to remember the Streisand Effect.
@@NathanCassidy721 He literally did a video on the Streisand Effect.
LOL
Yeah, Simon’s favourite
@@badluck5647 He's also done videos on Kinder Joy eggs, Exploding Head Syndrome, and a war crime so bad that even the Nazis were disgusted by it.
And he doesn't remember making any of them based on the sheer volume of content he's involved in.
Would be a great lead in to a biographics on King Kamehameha, the man behind the unification of the Hawaiian islands.
I'm just here for the potential DB references.. ;)
That would be a good ep. I was just there on the big island such a wonderful place
Waiting for goku to drop in since you brought up Kamehameha 🤣
Living on Kauai- I would point out he’s not liked here and for good reason.Just another colonizer-who messed with the wrong peeps!!!!
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@@tarapayne4945 “das okay cause da Hawaiians wen eat um”- Bu lai’a
Loved this, Love Captain Cook. Makes me more proud to be from the North and only 2 and a half hours from where he set sail. Very good video
nothing to love about this wretched man
@@Indi3Rit’s history ffs calm down
Fun Fact: There is a town in Queensland, Australia, called 1770 as it is where Cook set foot on Australia. The fun fact (besides it being a beautiful, quiet coastal town to holiday in) is it's the only place in the world named after a year.
Im kinda curious if there's a short hand for the towns name do they just say "I'm from 1770" or something else?
About 200km north of where I live in Cairns, Queensland (Cairns is about 1780km north of Brisbane and about 2600km north of Sydney) is the seaside town called Cooktown. It was where Captain Cook Beached the HMS Endeavour with Botanist Joseph Banks on the 6th June 1770. He landed there because the Endeavour ran aground on the reef near where Cooktown is today. He stayed in the area for 6months
@@jordanbarrett7754 slot of the locals are at Agnes Water, which is close by 1770
Alot...
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I will forever regret Australia not putting a space-ship launch side up that way....
I was surprised you didnt have a video on James Cook before. He is a very remarkable person.
it was always nuts to me, i'm a Samoan man who grew up learning about cook in the states. moved over to the big island and they actually have a monument erected where Cook was killed and eaten. it was borderline surreal
What does the plaque say? Good with pepper?
@@221b-l3t its a whole recipe on cooking Haole XD. wrap in Banana leaves, cook over hot coal. flip once and bury for 6 hours. coincedentally its the same way they cook pig.
The simple steel dagger that Cook was stabbed with was very special to the natives because they weren't smart enough to smelt even the softest metals for themselves. The fact that they would erect a monument to their own barbarism only further confirms that European conquest was the best thing that ever happened to them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@ajm2872 you got to realize Hawaii is still a baby compared to the mainland. I doubt metals and iron even formed yet in Hawaii at that time because the islands were only a few hundreds of years old. Thats why they use the next sharpest thing the islands could provide which is shark teeth
So he was actually eaten? I thought they removed all of his skin as traditional funerary rights usually reserved for the chiefs or higher people in society. I’ve still not started watching the vid, just came to the comments first.
The book Blue Latitudes is a great biography of Cook and his voyages.
I'm a grown man. I'm watching intellectual, educational content from one of my favorite UA-camrs, and yet I still giggle like a schoolboy at Simon speaking the words "seaman's apprentice."
Child. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
"Earl of Sandwich"
@@2510LuL if a Seaman eats a sandwich...would it be a Seaman Sandwich?
I can top this. Add "Watching in my Dragonball bathrobe". I'm a grown ass man, but definitely not a grown up lmao.
@@willyhearrell9060 he he, seaman milkshakes.
Regarding 14:50, William Bligh was the sailing master on the HMS Resolution and accompanied Captain James Cook on July 12, 1776 during Cook's third voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Thirteen years later, William Bligh was in command of the HMS Bounty when Fletcher Christian infamously mutinied on April 28, 1789. Seventeen years later William Bligh became the fourth Governor of New South Wales on August 13, 1806 and was deposed on January 26, 1808.
George Vancouver was on Cook's 2nd voyage and he would become an explorer and have a city and island named for him in western Canada.
I was born and raised not far from his home village. Captain Cook is still regarded as something of a hero here, they even named a hospital after him. I was a little surprised (at first) to see how he is vilified in some parts of the world but all things considered it's understandable.
It isn't understandable, it's just people being ignorant and projecting that ignorance on to Captain Cook.
I’m actually very impressed with him more than what i learnt in australia growing up. He seems a decent man for the times, and what killed him was a loss in cultural translation, not malice or subjugation of people for his own gain. I am sad that he didn’t live out his life in peace. More proud than ever that we see him as a hero in Australia.
Aboriginals hate captain cook what you on about bro
As an Aussie I don't see him as a hero or a villain. Just an explorer who happened upon Botany Bay at one point and went up the east coast. Nothing more nothing less. A remarkable man nonetheless for his sense of adventure - whether you are indigenous or not, a reasonable person could appreciate that.
@@zacsmith6653 who cares how they feel about him. They represent 0.5% of our population.
@Gwyn and Gold are you being serious or ?? Because the lack of empathy is scary
@Gwyn and Gold The didgeridoo was their best invention, in allegedly 60000 years of existence. 👌👍
Woodrow Wilson Biographic!
He keeps showing up in Biographics and Geographics, but he never gets to be the main character in the story.
I think Wilson got his biographic
@@cripplious Link?
@@cripplious I had to double check, but no, my least favorite president does not have a Biographics.
@@dudepool7530 ah. Apologies for being wrong. Must have been all the bios of his contemporary leaders where he gets a mention. Thanks for checking
Hell yeah would love that
Excellent! I went to Hawaii last month, Kona. Heard some of the lore visiting sites in the area, nice to see the full story.
Please do one about William of Orange
That's gonna be cheesy ;D
@@_Arminius Why?
@@j.a.weishaupt1748 Never mind, it's a stupid joke. You know, Dutch and cheese.
Anchorage has a statue of him looking out at the Cook Inlet and, the biggest Hotel is named after Cook
Lol, I'm moving from Hilo to Anchorage soon ('aina isn't going to be livable for poor people much longer, meaning anyone not able to afford property prices and energy). I wonder if he's as popular with the locals in AK as in HI.
I suspect so.
My man, i walk my dog past his birthplace museum every week...whitby is my favourite day out, it feels like this was made just for me.
The small village that Cook was born in is called Marton and over the years the modern town of Middlesbrough grew around it. The town has several things named in his honour including the main hospital and the James Cook birthplace museum.
Interesting
Do Matthew Flinders next. He circumnavigated and mapped the Australian mainland coastline, gave the country its name, had his maps stolen by the French on his way home during the Napoleonic Wars and his remains were recently re-discovered during the the expansion of Euston station for HS2 and were re-buried.
There is a statue of Flinders's cat at Flinders Station in Adelaide. There is also a statue of Flinders himself but it's his cat who is important.
interesting thank you
It's been interesting growing up and seeing how they change the way they talk about Cook. What they taught me compared to what they teach my niece.
@Gwyn and Gold 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Teach the real history not this made up white washed crap.
Simon I would love to see a Geographics video on Cape Horn and see the history of it too.
William Bligh sat on the Resolution and watched the Hawaiians kill Capt. Cook. We all know what a swell guy he was...no wonder he was set adrift.
William Bligh actually wasn't that bad, he was a competent Captain and far less flog happy than his peers, but more likely to scold and scream at subordinates. He was the Gordon Ramsey of his time.
I read that he sent cheese to his own house, then blamed the crew.
A great sailor. Amazing achievement.
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I wrote a paper about Captain James Cook when i was on the 5th grade. I got a 97%. I was actually pretty happy with that.
I was born in newzealand, as were my parents. I was taught very little about cook, it seems strange that a man who is very impressive and obviously important to the history of newzealand is seen as a negative figure instead of the inspiring, national hero he should be regarded as.
@MR Blaze Pukka no he didn’t. How can u discover something when people were already there
@MR Blaze Pukka You don't seem to understand the meaning of "found".
@MR Blaze Pukka I bet you believe Columbus discovered America? How can you discover something when people are already there and also the Vikings was there a lot longer before Columbus.
He used to be on the banknotes of New Zealand before the 1970s, not the Monarch.
@@taylahartemink5336 Because the word discovery does not imply that no one ever knew about it, just that you and the people you know didn't know about it. Kind of like how people talk about "discovering" a new restaraunt, when clearly others would know about its existence.
Arguing against the word "discovery" is pure semantics to avoid acknowleding that connecting the landmasses of the world together is a pretty damn impressive feat.
I have learned far more history from you than all the classes I took in school combined. And, it’s the politicized facts. Brilliant.
LOL I'm surprised you didn't mention the Earl of Sandwich's most famous legacy, the sandwich. And no, this isn't a joke. He did create the sandwich. :-)
Then tried to name Hawaii after his sandwich lol
Apparently when it comes to the crew's food.
Trust the Cook.
I'd like to see a @biographics on Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier
Remember the Alamo!
I grew up with stories of the Alamo and frontiersman like Davy Crockett. He was a great American Hero!
The man with 3 ears
I follow his grandson on Instagram
@@ThomasShelby6213 Outside the battle of the Alamo, I honestly know him more as a folk character than an actual person.
You should do Michael Collins! :) (the Irish one)
that video definitely won't be monetised by YT!
Simon could you consider doing a story about Ann Dixon who traveled solo by dog sled from the northeast of Alaska to Nova Scotia Canada along 2500 miles of uninhabited frozen coast. A huge trip that had many dangers that took two years.
Also other dog stories.
1.The professional dog sled racing. America vs Europe. Iditarod vs Yukon Quest. Short, medium, long distance race (Long is the premier category). Medical tests for dogs to enter. Training (fitness) for dogs and human. Lead dogs know left and right.
2.Cynocephaly
3,Modern dog training techniques vs old. Dogs that can smell covid, cancer, insect larvae in timber etc. look up Steve Austin and his work with Tasmania customs inspecting disembarking passengers.
4.Dogs (or other animals) used in experiments. Dogs used by pavlov (asshole) in his experiments were so cruel, but nobody knows what disgusting things he did to his subjects. Russian space dogs.
PS There is a statue of Cook in Anchorage Alaska looking out over the harbor. Do you know about Cook's cottage moved to Melbourne.
PPS Cook is not to popular in Australia in some circles. Statues get graffitied. See invasion day.
My father was on the crew sailing the replica Endeavour from Sydney to Tauranga a couple of years ago. It features on the 50 cent coin.
i have a print i got as a kid from when the boat visited Tauranga in the 90s
Wasn't there a TV series?
Thanks
2:30 - Chapter 1 - Farmer son to humble sailor
5:25 - Chapter 2 - The endeavour
8:15 - Chapter 3 - 1st voyage
10:50 - Chapter 4 - Mission , Antartica
13:50 - Chapter 5 - One last go around
15:10 - Chapter 6 - Aloha
16:50 - Chapter 7 - A dramatic exit
20:00 - Chapter 8 - Aftemath
Hence the reason that the Hawaiian islands used to be known as the Sandwich Islands.
How about a biography of Captain George Vancouver?
As a life long resident of Vancouver Island I 2nd this 😁
@@irradiatedghoul945 I'm from Seattle. Love all the Vancouvers in our area.
There’s one other naval hero you can do John Paul Jones
"I have not yet begun to fight!"
Underrated bassist
He's on my list!
The Village James Cook was born is called Marton, now part of Middlesbrough.
My birthplace and home too
@@MakinaMakinaMakina Mine also mate, I'm from Easterside near James Cook Hospital. I'm living in Somerset now though. UTB
Only been part of the boro since the 1950's. Still, it was weird Simon didn't say the name of the village
@@joelthorpe4170 Gypsy Lane marton I’m from haha
@@MakinaMakinaMakina Right next to Marton shops yeah? If my memory serves me correctly haha
Me: (Eating a Big-Mac)
Simon: When he met his friend The Earl of Sandwich...
“Sandwich was happy to have lured his friend out…” 😟
I am writing this prior to watching and I’m curious as to how he describes cooks history in the Hawaiian islands as I’m a kanaka ma’oli and I am very proud of my people’s culture and history
Mahalo from NZ
as an Aussie I find it strange you skipped over the fact that he circumnavigated Australia, not discovered tho. Port Botany
When did he do that?
Well done - Thank you for your service!
Great video! Would be very interested in a George B. McClellan video. Just finished a 30 page research paper and would love to hear some things that I missed in my research!
wait for the oversimplified memes,then.
@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 Ngl that video inspired me to reason him lol
Can we get a video of William Bligh and the HMS Bounty?
He was a very charitable man. Donated his body to some hungry natives
The opposite of white privilaGE.😂
Wonder if they "Cooked " him ? .....
So I learned that Banks wanted to become a household name by travelling to Tahiti, so went to his friend the Earl of Sandwich for help. Then, Sandwich became the household name simply by putting his lunch between a couple of slices of bread.
That reminds me of a play I read about, but didn't see, I think by Steve Martin. It involves Picasso and Einstein and other historical luminaries of their era. Another character is a complete nonentity, with no particular accomplishment, who achieves immortality by being the first person to say "Cheese" while having his picture taken. (At least that's how I remember it).
We need a Biographics video on Abel Tasman!
The house where he learnt his trade in Whitby still exists; there's a small museum there dedicated to him.
love this channel!!
I would love to see Biographics cover Matthew Flinders, first man to circumnavigate Australia.
I asked ……. I received
thank you Simon and team
Thanks for a great video, only found your channel recently
Dont forget his other ten
TopTenz
Today I Found Out
"Brain" Blaze (I don't like the change lol)
Mega Projects
Side Projects
Highlight History
Into the Shadows
The Casual Criminalist
Xplrd (Explored)
Geographics
Welcome to the Whistlerverse!
Cook got roasted way before the internet
oh dear...
I remember an Englishman of the Royal Navy, maybe a captain in the 17/18th century, who ended up being sacked, and then he went on to single handedly liberate Chile from the Spanish (I think),
Many South American colonies were also liberated by the same man, and there’s at least one road in each place named after him
Casually mentioning a new channel. 😁. Love it. All the best. Great work.
Biographics is the best as always but please resist POLITICAL CORRECTNESS although required by current Orthodoxy.
Love the videos!
Would like to see one about William Damper, explorer, naturalist and buccaneer
Wait, Captain Kirk was named after Captain Cook? I HAD NO IDEA WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME THIS???!?!?!?!!!
You should do one of these on the gracchi brothers or just one of them
Honestly I had no idea James cook died in Hawaii until I looked into this. Say what you will about the man but he was a master at adventuring.
He's in my top 20 favorite historical figures.
How long before we see a biographic about the historical figure, Steve Irwin?
Australia's Founding Father (as viewed outside the country)
Just like Cook, he got too close to the natives.
There is a park quite near me it was where James Cook was born . Its now a public park. There is a museum all about his journey and life. Its quite good.
Here's a side fact the small yorkshire village name is Marton which the new zealand town i currently live in is name after as tribute to captian James cook
Marton isn’t a town, it’s an area in Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough is the town
That’s where I live haha
@@MakinaMakinaMakina Marton was a separate hamlet/village in the 1700's you fool. It was only adopted into the Boro as late as the 1950's.
You obviously skipped school a lot, like most smoggies.
James cook grew up in a very small area that I am from called Marton it was a standalone village back then but now built up in a town called Middlesbrough. It’s crazy to think the most famous explorer of all time lived in the same area as me once over. The local hospital has his name. There’s museums of him in every part of the town. A replica ship of the endeavour in the town hall. It’s literally just genuinely crazy how after all this time he is still so famous. He had a brutal end but undeniably an amazing career at sea. I sometimes walk to the captain cook monument as it’s at the highest point of the town. Middlesbrough is virtually unknown around the world but the history is so famous from the steel works to the greatest voyager to
Ever live.
A Greek tragedy really. All the Greek heroes had bad endings. Hubris the gods will punish.
Loved the video btw you really should make one about rudolph valentino
Song from my Brisbane childhood:
Captain Cook,
The dirty old chook.
Sailed around Australia.
Lost his pants,
In the middle of France
... And found them in Tasmania
I remember buying a joke book from the book fair at my primary school. That had those lines in it.
Lame
The things folks got up to before the internet.
The past was the best.
John Explorer: the world's most famous cook.
I laughed too hard at this. Kudos!
His voyages were incredible feats sailing into the unknown . Even if done in modern day ships the voyages would be daunting but to be done totally on the power of sail is astounding.
I mean, modern sailing boats making these journeys all the time. What is impressive is he did it with no knowledge of where he was going or weather forecasts etc
HMS Endeavour was on of the ship names that was used in Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy
It was much too big, I've seen a replica of Cook's Endeavour. It's tiny.
Lost my hair at 22, I feel you man!
Me too dude it’s totally not fair
I was waiting for this my entire life
You're not allowed a beard that magnificent and hair at the same time Simon, you can't be greedy.
Wait... I'm greedy?! Does it help that I shave part of my head?
Hello Simon...mind if I binge watch some of your work!😃.... im "follicley challenged" myself,but I got a nice shaped head ,so I'm happy with it!!..." Namaste"!!
Impressive man, especially considering his humble background.
Waiting for the Biographics on Danny Salter...
would love a Ian Fleming Biographics
glad to see this guy finally get covered
Well,now i know who is Captain Cook the best in the anglo world.
Exploration back then had to be so much fun. Making first time discoveries on your journey must have felt priceless. Nowadays just about everything unique on Earth has been explored and discovered, space is now the new frontier for explorers.
And the ocean only 5/100 has bean discovered look it up it’s true
@Gwyn and Gold perhaps in hundred years?
@@nataliekennedy4646 I'm sure you might find some monsters but in terms of resources or civilizations, the Ocean has little to be discovered.
R.I.P The 4 British Marines:(1730S-1779)
Cause Of Deaths:(Crossbow Wounds)
November/December, 1730S ~ February 14th, 1779.
R.I.P , 2005-2026
"Combats the symptoms of hair loss"
List of symptoms for hair loss.
1.) Hair loss.
Fin
2) Claiming, in spite of evidence, that one doesn't have hair loss.
I had no idea how he died.
Interesting video but I had trouble keeping up. You just talk too fast! Any chance you could slow it down a notch or two for us old folks?
I agree! He talks way too fast for me, and I’m not even old.
Native Hawaiians: "For the Watch.🗡"
Cook: "😨What?!"
Cooks travels to Antarctica "the rhyme of the ancient Mariner"
Hawaii was initially titled "The sandwich islands" by Cool after Lord Sandwich 🇦🇺
Thank you for a well-written and narrated mini biography of a man who personified the best and the worst of the British empire. In just a few minutes, with some well-selected still images, you provided an overview of an exceptional man who made the mistake of believing his flatterers, who proclaimed he was the most legendary of explorers. What sealed his fate was his lack of respect for indigenous cultures to whom he became emboldened. This cost him his life, but did not enlighten the British aristocracy about the consequences of exploiting “primitive” peoples.
And so followed Britain’s ruthless conquest of what were to become its colonies, including the enslavement of Africans to harvest the sugar cane in the West Indies that was yet 0:02 😊another source of wealth for this small kingdom in the North Atlantic. Similarly, the British used opium harvested in India to addict Chinese and create a subservient class.
It would be unfair to judge Cook by present-day standards. While acknowledging his severe limitations in dealing respectfully with other cultures, his audaciy should also given due credit. His skills as an explorer and his vision for what colonies could offer, established a tradition of British exploitation of faraway lands, while at the same time relegating to them British parliamentary tradition, and compared with the Spanish, Portuguese, and Belgians, an opportunity for a colonial worker to have something resembling a good life.
Britain’s empire enriched a few aristocratic families, but it was not until much later the British took to heart the savage death of this great explorer and gave colonies their freedom .
Cook took every opportunity to "deal respectfully with other cultures" what he struggled with was the Polynesian culture of theft.
Can you do one on Shaka Zulu, Ayrton Senna, Haile Selassie or Bernard Montgomery. Great video by the way.
Cook is being targeted by the cancel culture. Don’t get sucked in. True his last voyage was a disaster, mostly. He hadn’t prepared anything like for the previous ones. Some say he was already sick and didn’t want to go but didn’t have options. He just got sicker. The reason people who knew him (including locals) were so shocked by how things ended was how different his behaviour and judgement became. The last voyage was in secret as Britain didn’t have rights to explore the west coast of North America with made the trip even more stressful for him. An example of his usual conduct with locals was his disgust at fur traders getting sealers etc addicted to tobacco, something they couldn’t obtain except by trade with them. After his killing there were apologies from both sides on an incident that got out of hand for all. But that shouldn’t be used to cancel his whole life.
So much to learn from the life of James Cook! I enjoyed reading all the comments, some of which seemed rather vindictive. He was actually quite beneficent towards the indigenous peoples some might say paternalistic. During the second voyage, several English sailors were cannibalized by Maori in New Zealand. When Cook returned there on the third voyage, he met peacefully with the same natives. The fact that he suffered the same fate is ironic. But when the Hawaiian natives ate his heart, they were acknowledging his greatness and wanted to have some for themselves.
Based
Old man cook sounds like Brandon. Lol
A simple Boro lad that achieved greatness.
That was pretty intense.