Captain Cook’s Family Coat Of Arms – Whitby, UK
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N 54° 29.427 W 000° 36.973
30U E 654398 N 6040706
This coat of arms is displayed on a statue of explorer Captain James Cook.
Waymark Code: WMEYW4
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/24/2012
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Waymark WMEJMR tells the story of this locally born navigator and explorer. During his career he helped to map the western coast of Australia, explored near to the Antarctic, was part of a team that observed the transit of Venus and also tested the clocks that became the standard way of calculating longitude on long voyages.
On his last voyage he was killed by inhabitants of Hawaii after a dispute over a stolen rowing boat.
In 1785, King George III granted a coat of arms to the descendants of Captain Cook. This award is said to have been a mark of the esteem in which Cook was held by the King and the people of Britain. The arms includes two mottoes "Circa orbem" (Around the world)on the crest and "Nil intentatum reliquit" (He left nothing unattempted) below the shield. As none of Cook's children survived to have children themselves, the authority to use this coat of arms died with them.
The arms are the only ones to have been awarded posthumously and also the only ones to have had an Earth globe incorporated in them.
The crest shows an arm holding a British flag aloft. The main part of the arms is a shield showing the earth globe with both the northern and southern stars. The orientation of the globe shows the Pacific Ocean and has those words on it. On the
published coat of arms his voyages are shown on the globe, but this is not present on this stone version. Below the shield are 4 ships' cannons.