The British explorer James Cook sailed along the east coast of Australia during his first major voyage of discovery.. Early Life. James Cook was born in the small village of Marton in Yorkshire England, on 27 October 1728. He was the second of eight children born to a Scottish farm worker named James Cook Senior (1693-1779) from Ednam in Roxburghshire and Grace Pace (1702-1765), who was born in Thornaby-on-Tees. His family relocated to the Airey Holme farm.

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James Cook was born on 7 November 1728 ( NS) in the village of Marton in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He was the second of eight children of James Cook (1693-1779), a Scottish farm labourer from Ednam in Roxburghshire, and his locally born wife, Grace Pace (1702-1765), from Thornaby-on-Tees. In 1736, his family moved to Airey Holme farm.. Cook explored the northern Pacific and mapped extensive parts of North America and Alaska before being turned back by ice. Cook stopped over in Hawaii to restock his supplies before continuing his exploring. This is where his adventures end. Captain Cook was killed at Kealakekua Bay, on 14 February 1779, in a confrontation with the Indigenous.