CORNER BROOK, NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA Captain Cook Memorial Plaques and Statue
Description: Situated on Crows Hill (Cook’s Lookout), a prominent headland, and reached by road with parking areas, walkways and site lighting. Designed around a future sculpture in bronze, a statue larger than life which will depict Cook at the appropriate age while in Newfoundland in the act of gazing into the heavens through a quadrant. Two bronze plaques now refurbished and reinstated along with five new interpretive panels which chronologically detail Cook’s arrival in the new world. History: James Cook charted this coast in 1767, and named many places in the area. Plaques originally erected in the 1970s. Placed there as a result of the persuasion of Dr Noel Murphy, a retired physician who was also Mayor of Corner Brook for 12 years. Originally developed by Parks Canada as a National Historic Plaque site. A bronze statue of Cook, sculpted by Luben Boykov, was later added. Inscription: On one plaque:
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GPS Coordinates: 48.9542, -57.9627 References: Cook’s Log, page 1576, vol.22, no.1 (1999) Cook’s Log, page 26, vol.31, no.3 (2008) Cook’s Log, page 34, vol.35, no.4 (2012)
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