A bronze statue of the British explorer Captain James Cook stands in Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia. Designed by Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood sculptor Thomas Woolner and unveiled in 1879, the statue is larger than life and depicts Cook holding a telescope in his left hand with his right hand extended towards the sky.

Large bronze statue of Captain James Cook, holding a chart in his left hand, his right hand upraised. The figure is 488 cm high. The statue stands on a huge block of single granite, brought from a quarry at Moruya, over 120 miles away in 1878. The block weighs between 15 and 18 tons.

[Captain Cook's statue and the Australian Museum, Sydney] undated [ca. 1880s] The statue of Captain James Cook, erected in Hyde Park opposite the Australian Museum, was unveiled on 25 February 1879. It commemorated Cook's death in Hawaii in 1779.

The Captain Cook sculpture was erected by public subscription, which was supplemented by government grants. Interest in erecting a statue of Cook, the first English navigator to come across the east coast of Australia, had been expressed for more than a decade.

The statue commemorates Captain James Cook (1728 - 1779) who explored, charted and claimed the east coast of Australia for the British Empire in 1770. It was erected by public subscription supplemented by government grants. In Sydney it was estimated that more than 60,000 people attended the unveiling and 12,000 joined the procession.

The Captain Cook statue in Hyde Park, Sydney stands on a huge granite base that was brought from a quarry at Moruya, over 120 miles away in 1878. The base was a single block of granite weighing between fifteen and eighteen tons in the rough.

Thomas Woolner's statue of Captain Cook is unveiled in Hyde Park, Sydney. The ceremony was attended by some thirty thousand spectators, and included a parade by men of the Royal Navy, Naval Brigade and New South Wales Artillery.

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Jan 24, 2025 · A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's east has been vandalised for the second time in 12 months. NSW Police said officers were investigating after it was splashed with red paint and some of ...

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