List of places named after James Cook explained

This is a list of places named after Captain James Cook (1728–1779), the British explorer.

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 (Ontario), 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

• Cook's 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
• Seventeen Seventy, Queensland, Australia