List of places named after James Cook

This is a list of places named after Captain James Cook (1728–1779), the British explorer, navigator, and cartographer. Numerous geographic features, settlements, administrative divisions, and other locations throughout the world have been named in his honor following his voyages of exploration in the Pacific Ocean.

Countries Cook Islands

Country subdivisions Cook County, New South Wales, Australia Division of Cook, an electoral division in New South Wales, Australia County of Cook, Queensland, Australia Electoral district of Cook, Queensland, Australia

Towns Cook, Australian Capital Territory Cooktown, Queensland, Australia Cook's Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada Mount Cook, Wellington, a suburb in New Zealand Cooks Beach, Coromandel, a town in New Zealand Captain Cook, Hawaii, United States

Geographic features Bodies of water Cooks River, New South Wales, Australia Cook's Bay, Ortario, Canada Cooks Brook (Newfoundland), Canada Cook Bay (Tierra del Fuego), Chile Cooks Anchorage, also known as Tautira Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia Cook's Bay (Moorea), French Polynesia Cook Channel, an arm of Dusky Sound, New Zealand Cook Stream, in Pickersgill Harbour, Dusky Sound, New Zealand Cook's Cove, near Tolaga Bay, New Zealand Cook River (New Zealand) Cook Strait, New Zealand Cook Bay (South Georgia) Cook Inlet, Alaska, United States

Glaciers Cook Glacier, Kerguelen Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Lands Cook Glacier (South Georgia)

Islands Cook Island (New South Wales), Australia Cook Island, Tierra del Fuego, Chile Cook Island, Kiritimati, Kiribati Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands Cook Rock, South Sandwich Islands

Mountains Cook Mountains, Antarctica Mount Cook near Cooktown, Queensland, Australia Mount Cook (Saint Elias Mountains), Yukon, Canada and Alaska, United States Aoraki / Mount Cook, New Zealand

Extraterrestrial features 3061 Cook, a minor planet Cook crater, the Moon

See also Cooks' Cottage, Melbourne, Australia James Cook Observatory, Gisbourne, New Zealand James Cook railway station, Middlesbrough, England James Cook University, Queensland, Australia James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, England List of commemorations of Captain James Cook Seventeen Seventy, Queensland, Australia

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