During that trip, Cook had named the site ... The biggest island in the region bears Vancouver’s name, though if the captain ...

The first prolonged visit was from the renowned English navigator James Cook, who anchored at Ship Cove (now Resolution Cove on Vancouver ... and the Sandwich Islands. Captain Cook, Public Arcives ...

The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners.