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

Countries

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Country subdivisions

Cook County, New South Wales Cook County was one of the original Nineteen Counties in New South Wales and is now one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It includes the area to the west of Sydney in the Blue Mountains, between the Colo River in the north, a ...

, Australia * Division of Cook, an electoral division in New South Wales, Australia *

County of Cook, Queensland The county of Cook is a cadastral division of Queensland, centred on the city of Bundaberg, and its name honours Captain James Cook. It was officially named and bounded by the Governor in Council on 7 March 1901 under the ''Land Act 1897''. ...

, Australia * Electoral district of Cook, Queensland, Australia

Towns

Cook, Australian Capital Territory Cook (postcode: 2614) is a suburb of the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. At the , Cook had a population of 2,965 people. The suburb of Cook is named after Captain James Cook and the s ...

Cooktown, Queensland Cooktown is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. Cooktown is at the mouth of the Endeavour River, on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland where James Cook beached his ship, the Endeavour, for repair ...

, Australia *

Cook's Harbour Cook's Harbour is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 123 in the Canada 2016 Census. The population as of 2021 was 118 (including Wild Bight and Boat Harbour) but the population has been dec ...

, Newfoundland, Canada *

Mount Cook, Wellington Mount Cook is an inner suburb of the metropolitan area of Wellington, The North Island, New Zealand, 1.74 km dead south of Wellington's Central Business District. Its local constituency area is the Wellington Central, and is part of the ...

, 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) Cooks Brook is a stream in Newfoundland, Canada, that runs into the Humber Arm, on the west coast of the island. There is a day use park at the ocean, which is used by kayakers. The stream was named for Captain James Cook James Cook (7 No ...

, Canada *

Cook Bay (Tierra del Fuego) Cook Bay is the name of three bays: *Cook Bay (South Georgia) Cook Bay () is an irregular bay, wide at its entrance between Cape Crewe and Black Head, narrowing into two western arms, Lighthouse Bay and Prince Olav Harbour, along the north coa ...

, Chile *Cooks Anchorage, also known as Tautira Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia *

Cook's Bay (Moorea) Cook's Bay (also known as Paopao Bay) is a 3-km long bay on the north coast of the island of Mo'orea, Tahiti. It is one of the two principal bays on the island. The other, Opunohu Bay is 4 km west of Cooks Bay. Pao Pao, the largest villa ...

, French Polynesia *Cook Channel, an arm of

Dusky Sound Tamatea / Dusky Sound is a fiord on the southwest corner of New Zealand, in Fiordland National Park. Geography One of the most complex of the many fiords on this coast, it is also the largest at 40 kilometres in length and eight kilometr ...

, New Zealand *Cook Stream, in Pickersgill Harbour,

, New Zealand *Cook's Cove, near

Tolaga Bay Tolaga Bay ( mi, Uawa) is both a bay and small town on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island located 45 kilometres northeast of Gisborne and 30 kilometres south of Tokomaru Bay. The region around the bay is rugged and remote, and for m ...

, New Zealand * Cook River (New Zealand) *

Cook Strait Cook Strait ( mi, Te Moana-o-Raukawa) separates the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The strait connects the Tasman Sea on the northwest with the South Pacific Ocean on the southeast. It is wide at its narrowest point,McLintock, A ...

, New Zealand * Cook Bay (South Georgia) *

Cook Inlet Cook Inlet ( tfn, Tikahtnu; Sugpiaq: ''Cungaaciq'') stretches from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska. Cook Inlet branches into the Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm at its northern end, almost surrounding Anchorage. On its so ...

, 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 Kiritimati (also known as Christmas Island) is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands. It is part of the Republic of Kiribati. The name is derived from the English word "Christmas" written in Gilbertese according to its phonolog ...

, Kiribati *

Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands Cook Island is the central and largest island of the Southern Thule island group, part of the South Sandwich Islands in the far south Atlantic Ocean. Southern Thule was discovered by a British expedition under Captain James Cook in 1775. Cook Is ...

* Cook Rock, South Sandwich Islands

Mountains

* Cook Mountains, Antarctica * Mount Cook near

, Australia * Mount Cook (Saint Elias Mountains), Yukon, Canada and Alaska, United States *

Aoraki / Mount Cook Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as . It sits in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island. A popular tourist destination, it is also a favourite ...

, New Zealand

Extraterrestrial features

* 3061 Cook, a minor planet * Cook crater, the Moon