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..a shitload of postcards

Staithes, Yorkshire

James Cook was apprenticed as a shop boy to the local grocer here.

He went on to captain the “Endeavour”, a converted coastal collier a mere 100 feet long and a crew of 94, with which he

• Circumnavigated the globe between 1768 and 1771
• Observed the transit of Venus in Tahiti
• (Re) Discovered New Zealand and accurately mapped the coastline
• Became the first European to discover the east coast of Australia 

Murdered by Americans* in 1779.

*Hawaiians then, actually, but they’re Americans these days….