Cape Cook

Cape Cook (50˚08'00" 127˚55'00" NW end of Brooks Peninsula, NW side of Vancouver I), Cape Cook Lagoon (50˚12'00" 127˚48'00" N side of Brooks Peninsula near Klaskish Inlet), Cook Bank (50˚57'00" 128˚26'00" N of Scott Channel, off NW tip of Vancouver I), Cook Channel (49˚38'00" 126˚36'00" S of Boston Point, W side of Nootka Sd, W side of Vancouver I). James Cook (1728–79), “the father of British hydrography,” was born in Yorkshire and worked on merchant vessels before joining the RN...

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