Captain James Cook

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Reference WMO/197216

Address:

National Trust - Stowe Gardens

Buckingham

MK18 5EQ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Pillar/column
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Seven Years War (1756-1763)
About the memorial: Captain James Cook saw action in the Seven Years War, but was killed in Hawaii while on an exploratory trip in February 1779. The monument, a globe atop a white stone plinth with reliefs of Cook's profile, was restored in 2002. A globe originally topped the monument but for many years it had been replaced with a small stone sarcophagus. A bit of a stretch to call this a war memorial, but he was killed in the service of his country.
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(Painted on the equatorial band around the globe): Te maris & terræ numeroque carentis arenæ mensorem, which translates as 'you were the man who measured sea, earth, and sand without number.'

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