by Tony Horwitz
“Frigida,”
Frobisher, Martin
Furneaux, Tobias
fur trade
British
Russian
Fusitu’a, ‘Eseta
Gallipoli
Gauguin, Paul
Gentleman’s Magazine, The
George III, King of England
Gibson, Samuel
Gilbert, George
Gisborne, New Zealand
tribal council
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Golodoff, Ben
Golodoff, Suzi
Gordieff, Moses
Gore, Lt. John
after death of Cook
Grassy Hill (Australia)
Great Ayton, Yorkshire
Cook monument at Easby Moor
Cook schoolhouse
Cook sites at
Great Barrier Reef
contemporary
Cook navigates through to leave Australia
Cook repairs ship on Endeavour River after striking
Cook strikes
Greathead, Jack
Green, Charles
Guest, Stafford
Gulf of Alaska
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond)
Guugu Yimidhirr (Aboriginal tribe)
Gwyeagal or Gwygal people
Ha’amonga’a Maui (stone arch or trilithon, Tonga)
Hakupu, Niue
Hamilton, Lady
Harrison, John
Hauiti (Maori ancestor)
Hawaii
American annexation of
contemporary
contemporary, attitudes toward Cook in
contemporary, travel to death site at Kealakekua Bay
Cook arrives in
Cook deified in, on day of last journal entry
Cook monument caretaker in
Cook’s body and bones in, after death
Cook’s death in
Cook’s death in, commemoration at monument in
Cook’s death in, contemporary site of
Cook’s death in, crew’s violence, after
Cook’s death in, European vs.
native views of
Cook’s last weeks in
Cook wonders at Polynesians’ spread over Pacific
European impact on
Ke’ei trip
taboo or kapu system in
temple sites in
Waipi’o Valley
Hawaiians
cultural renaissance of
at first contact, Kane on
on killing of Cook
traditional beliefs of
Helu, Futa
Henry VIII
King of England
Heyerdahl, Thor
Hicks, Lt. Zachary
“Hints” (Earl of Morton)
Hipa, Richard
Hodges, William
portrait of Cook
Home, Alexander
Homer
Honolulu, Hawaii
Hope sandbars
Hopevale, Australia
Huahine
contemporary
Cook on
Hudson, Henry
human bones, Endeavour crew and
human sacrifice
Hunley (Confederate submarine)
Indians, American
Indonesia, see Batavia
Industrial Revolution
international dateline
Irwin, Bill
Ite Ure Na Hiro
James Cook Historical Museum, (Cooktown, Australia)
Japan
Jefferson, Thomas
Johnson, Samuel
Journal on Board His Majesty’s Bark Resolution (Cook’s journal, Volume II)
Ka’awaloa, Hawaii
contemporary site of
Cook’s death at
Kailua, Hawaii
Kalanimano (Hawaiian warrior)
Kamay-Botany Bay National Park
Kamchatka
Kamehameha II
King of Hawaii
Kane, Herb Kawainui
The Death of Cook, February 14, 1779
kava ceremony, Tonga
Kaye Island (now Kayak)
Keable, Robert
Kealakekua Bay
anniversary of Cook’s death ceremony at
contemporary, trip to, by road
contemporary, trip to, by sea
Cook arrives at
Cook deified by natives at
Cook dies at
Cook monument at
development of
Ke’ei, Hawaii
Kelly, Ned
Kew Gardens
King, Lt. James
commands Discovery
Cook’s death and
on Cook’s deification in Hawaii
life of, after third voyage
Nootka Sound and
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King Cove, Alaska
Kippis, Andrew
Knecht, Melia
Knecht, Rick
Koah (Hawaiian priest)
Kodiak Island
Kurnell Peninsula
annual commemoration of Cook’s landing at
European impact on
name of
Law, John
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawrence, T. E.
Ledyard, John
on death of Cook
Leprosy Creek, Australia
Leslie, Henry
Leslie, Henry III “Sonny,”
Leslie, Randy
Levy, Dorothy
Lewis and Clark
Life of Captain Cook, The (Stamp and Stamp)
Lind, James
Linnaeus, Carl
Little Ice Age
Lizard Island, Australia
London
few Cook exhibits in
Cook in, between 2nd and 3rd voyages
Cook’s home in
Mile End district
Tahitian Omai in
tour of Cook sites in, with Cliff
Wapping waterfront
London Chronicle
London Gazette
London Missionary Society
London Natural History Museum
Longitude (Sobel)
Lono (Hawaiian god)
Cook’s bones and
Lord Liverpool University George
Washington School of Medicine
Lords of the Admiralty
Cook’s letter to, delivered by Russians
southern continent and
voyage of Resolution and
Lutheran missionionaries
Macao
McGuire, Anne Iranui
MacLean, Alistair
Mad Max—Beyond Thunderdome (film)
Magellan, Ferdinand
Magra, James
mahu (transvestites)
Makahiki season
mana (godly power)
Mandeville, Bernard
Manley, Isaac
“Manners & customs of S. Sea Isands” (Banks)
Maori
cannibalism of
contemporary, anger at Cook
contemporary, culture of
contemporary, whites and
Cook and
Cook’s first contact and killing of
cultural differences between whites and
grievances of, against Europeans
haka dance of
language of
life span of
similarity of, to Hawaiians
Tupaia and
marae (temple)
Maori
in Tahiti
Taputapuatea (Raiatea)
Marcos, Imelda
Marton, Yorkshire, Cook’s birthplace in
Marx, Karl
Matavai Bay
Maui
“Meeting of Two Cultures Ceremony, The” (Australia)
Mela, Pomponius
Melbourne, Australia
Cook’s cottage in
Mercury Bay
Mich
ener, James
Middlesbrough, Yorkshire
Moby Dick (Melville)
Molière
Molyneux, Robert
Mongrel Mob
Monkhouse, Jonathan (midshipman)
Monkhouse, William (surgeon)
Moorea
Mormon Church (Tonga)
Morton, Earl of
Mozart
Murderers Bay
Mururoa atoll
Musée Gauguin
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 film
1962 film
Napoleonic Wars
Napo’opo’o temple or heiau (Hawaii)
native or indigenous people. See also
Aborigines; Maori; Tahitians; and other specific lands and cultures
Aboriginal beliefs
Aborigines, first contact with Europeans
Aborigines, killed
Aleuts
Australian environment and
Cook distressed by European impact on
Cook’s preview of European effect on, in Alaska
Cook’s regard for
Cook’s behavior toward, results in his death
exploration, exploitation and
Hawaiian
Hawaiian, first contact with Europeans
Hawaiian, population decline, after Cook
Hawaiian, traditional culture ravaged
impact of Europeans on
Maori, and Europeans
mutual intimacy of Pacific Islanders and Cook’s sailors
Polynesian culture unravels after Cook
population decline and Europeans
Tahiti, and Europeans
Tahiti, population decline in
“negative discovery,”
Nelson, Horatio
Nemaia, Harry
Newfoundland
New Guinea
New Hebrides
New Holland (Australia as)
Newport Harbor, Rhode Island Endeavour and Resolution at
New South Wales, Cook names See also Australia
Newton, Isaac
New Zealand
belief system in
contemporary Maori in
contemporary whites in
Cook charts
Cook and Maori cannibalism
Cook first encounters Maori in
Cook laments effect of discovery on
Cook landing site in, near Poverty Bay
Cook landing site in, near Tolaga Bay
Cook returns to
French and
Hawaii and
Niue and
treatment of natives in
Niue Economic Review
Niue (Savage Island)
attempt to frighten outsiders away from
contemporary, difficulty of traveling to
Cook landing at
coral reefs off
culture and history of
government and economy of
missionaries on
Miss Niue contest
search for red banana (hulahula) on
National Library and Archives
New Zealand and WW I
Niue Telecom
Noon, Leanne
Nootka Sound
North Island, New Zealand
contemporary
Cook reaches
Northwest Passage
Nuku’alofa, Tonga
Obeyesekere, Gananath
O’Brian, Patrick
Oldenburg, Claes Bottle of Notes sculpture
Olympic Games (2000)
Omai (Tahitian)
Omai: Or, a Trip Round the World (play)
Once Were Warriors (film)
Opoa, Raiatea
Oregon coast
Oro (war god)
Otaheite
Pacific
reach of Polynesians across
search for Northwest Passage from
third voyage reaches
unknown regions of
Pacific islanders. See also Polynesians; and specific islands and peoples
English sailors and
origin of
second voyage and
Pacific Northwest. See also
Alaska; British Columbia
Paikea (Maori founding ancestor)
Palliser, Hugh
Papa-tu-a-nuku (Maori Earth Mother)
Papeete, Tahiti
Parkinson, Sydney
Aborigines and
Aborigine words and
death of
drawings published
Huahine and
kangaroos and
Maori and
New Zealand and
Roaring Forties and
Tahiti and
Tupaia’s death and
on voyage to Australia
Pawa (Polynesian navigator)
Pepys, Samuel
Petropavlovsk, Russia, Clerke monument in
Philippines
Phillip, Arthur
Phillips, Molesworth
Pickersgill, Richard
Plants
in Australia
Banks and, in Kew Gardens
in British Natural History Musuem
Cook gives, to Tonga
in New Zealand
Point Hicks
Point Venus
Poison Creek, Australia
Polo, Marco
Polynesia
big mouth or wahanui
“discovery” notion and
gift giving in
illustration of human sacrifice on
meaning of name
religion in
Polynesians. See also specific lands and people
belief system of
early seafaring by
iron adzes and
origin of
tattoo and
Port Jackson (later Sydney Harbour)
Possession Island
Pouant, James
Poverty Bay
Pribilof Islands
Priestley, Joseph
property
theft, Cook’s response to
in Tahiti
Providential Channel
Prowd, Mary
Ptolemy
Puhina O Lono mortuary temple (Hawaii)
Purea, Queen of Tahiti
Pu’uhonua O Honaunau Park
(Hawaii)
Quakers, Cook and
Quebec, Canada
Queensland, Australia
Queirós, Fernandes de
Raiatea
contemporary
Cook and religion of
Cook raises flag on
Cook’s view of
Hawaii and
Ranginui (Maori Sky Father)
Reagan, Ronald
Remarkable Occurences on Board His Majestys Bark Endeavour (Cook’s journal, Vol. I)
Resolution, H.M.S., Cook’s second voyage and
Cook sets out from London
returns to England
in Tonga
trip to Antarctica and southern regions
Resolution, H.M.S., Cook’s third voyage and
Cook’s death in Hawaii and
fate of
gear and animals on
in Hawaii
improper refitting of
in Kamchatka, after Cook’s death
problems on, as voyage reaches
Pacific
prow of
in Unalaska Island
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Rickman, Lt. John
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The” (Coleridge)
Roaring Forties
Robinson, Sheila
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Rosedale, George
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Royal Geographical Society
Royal Hospital at Greenwich
Royal Navy
Cook asked to lead Endeavour voyage by
Cook joins
Harrison’s clock machi
ne and
scurvy and
Board, Cook’s anger at
Royal New Zealand Navy
Royal Society
Banks sent on Endeavour by
ommissions Cook to chart South Pacific
Cook and Fellows of
Cook elected to
