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North Yorkshire Yorkshire & Humberside High Green |
James Cook as a BoyMarton, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire 1728 - Hawaï 1779British explorer, navigator and cartographer, famous because of his three voyages to the Pacific Ocean (Wikipedia) |
Nicholas Dimbleby
1997 |
Statue of James Cook as a boy. He lived from 1736 to 1745, thus age 8 to 17, in Great Ayrton. The statue shows him however more as a young man than as a boy.
JAMES COOK who lived in Great Ayton between 1736 and 1745 later became Captain James Cook R.N. F.R.S. Famous Navigator |
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