Éire

Somewhat surprisingly, the Republic of Ireland, featured Cook on one of its Millennium issues.

Éire

01/01/2001

Millennium Part 6 - Epic Journeys (6x1v) This set of stamps features Cook and his first Pacific Expedition in 1768 on one of the 30p stamps. The set was issued in a sheetlet of 12 stamps (2 sets) and included others stamps featuring Shackleton, Marco Polo and others.

Guernsey

Guernsey released a set in 1990 featuring Anson's voyage. A second release was promised but has not appeared. Philip Saumarez wrote the logbook for the expedition, whose sailors included a young John Byron.

Guernsey Bailiwick	06/05/1980	Europa. Personalities 2v Admiral Lord de Saumarez, who sailed on Anson's voyage in the 1740s is shown on the 13½p stamp.
Guernsey	26/07/1990	Anson's Circumnavigation 5v All five of these stamps feature the story of Anson's voyage up to their stranding on the Juan Fernandez Islands. The 14p shows Lt. Philip Saumarez writing the Log Book. The 20p shows Anson's squadron leaving Portsmouth. The 29p shows the ships at St. Catherine's Island, Brazil. The 34p shows the sloop Tryal dismasted at Cape Horn, 1741. The 37p shows the crew of HMS Centurion on the Juan Fernandez Islands.

Jersey

Philip Carteret, also known by his French name of Philippe de Carteret, was from one of Jersey's most important families. Charles II had appointed his grandfather Governor of New Jersey, and Lady Carteret had connections with Edmond Halley of comet fame. The Jersey Post Office marked the 250th anniversary of his Philip Carteret's birth with a set of six stamps, five of which deal with the Dolphin, Tamar and Swallow voyages.

Cook's map of Gaspé peninsular is shown on one of the Links with Canada issue from 1978. Links with Australia were the theme of the set in 1984, which featured the paintings of John Alexander Gilfillan. He painted a famous picture of Cook at Botany Bay. Born in Jersey in 1793, he travelled to and settled firstly in New Zealand and then Australia.

Jersey	09/06/1978	Links with Canada 6v The 8p stamp shows Cook's map of the Gaspé peninsular.
Jersey	24/02/1981	Arms of Jersey Families 11v The 1p stamp in this definitive series shows the arms of the De Carteret family. This stamp came in normal sheet form and from booklets. A later printing had a change perforation guage.
Jersey	15/02/1983	250th Birth Anniversary of Philippe de Carteret 6v The 8p shows the Tamar and Dolphin at Port Egmont on the Falkland Islands. The 11p shows the Dolphin and the Swallow being separated off the Straits of Magellan. The 19½p shows the Swallow discovering Pitcairn Island. The 24p shows Carteret taking possession of English Cove, on the islands north of Papua New Guinea. The 26p shows the Swallow sinking a pirate ship in the Macassar Strait. The 29p stamp relates to Carteret's later command of the Endymion in the West Indies.
Jersey	21/09/1984	Links with Australia - Paintings by John Alexander Gilfillan 6v The 20½p stamp shows a Maori village. The 26p, 28p and 31p show pictures of Australia. The 31p shows Captain Cook at Botany Bay.

Isle of Man

As part of the Millennium celebrations, the Isle of Man released a set of six stamps called 'A Story of Time'. The stamps depict the development of the precision watch and include two stamps featuring John Harrison.

Isle of Man

Early 2000

A Story of Time 6v The 22p and 29p stamps feature John Harrison and his chronometers.

United Kingdom

Byron's Voyage

Byron left Britain in the Dolphin accompanied by the Tamar on 03/07/1764. He returned on 09/05/1766, having completed the fastest circumnavigation of the globe up till that date. The Tamar had parted from the Dolphin shortly after passing St. Helena. She headed for Antigua in order to get her rudder repaired. This voyage has not been commemorated on any British stamps.

Wallis's and Carteret's Voyages

The refitted Dolphin accompanied by the Swallow and the Prince Frederick store ship left Plymouth on 22/08/1766. The Dolphin and Swallow became separated just after navigating the Straits of Magellan on 11/04/1767. The Dolphin finished its journey on 20/05/1768, having completed an even faster circumnavigation than Byron. The Swallow eventually limped back to Britain on 20/03/1769. This was after Cook had left on his first voyage. Indeed Cook didn't find out that the Swallow had survived until he reached Batavia towards the end of 1770.

Cook's Early Survey Work

Cook left for Canada on the Pembroke in 1757. He returned in 1767.

Cook's First Voyage

Cook left in the Endeavour in 1768, the first objective of the voyage being the observation of the Transit of Venus from newly discovered Tahiti. After that he went on to map the entire coastline of New Zealand, and the East Coast of New Holland. The Endeavour was nearly lost on the Barrier Reef and it took six weeks to repair the ship before sailing on for Batavia. The Endeavour returned in Britain in 1771.

Cook's Second Voyage

Cook left in the Resolution accompanied by the Adventure in 1772, returning in 1775. This was the first journey on which he took Kendal's marine chronometer, a copy of John Harrison's H4.

Cook's Third Voyage

Cook left in the Resolution accompanied by the Discovery in 1776. He was killed in Hawaii in 1779, and his remains buried at sea. Clerke, the captain of the Discovery took over Cook's role until his own death. The ships eventually returned to England in 1780.

Captain Cook has appeared on two UK stamps and a couple of other items. Firstly, the 1/6d value from the 1968 Anniversaries set commemorated the bicentennial of the start of his first voyage. More recently, he was featured on the 63p value from the Millennium Travellers' Tale issue in 1999, entitled 'Cook's Endeavour'. In 1970 a 10/- booklet was issued featuring Cook on the cover and in 1997, an aerogramme was issued by the Post Office relating to the Replica Endeavour.

John Harrison, who invented the marine chronometer that Cook took on his second and third voyages, was commemorated with a set of four stamps in 1993. His chronometer was also the basis for the 20p stamp in the Millennium Inventors' Tale issue and the stamps in the Millennium Timekeeper miniature sheet.

Joseph Banks, who was the naturalist on the first voyage, has a building named after him in Kew Gardens. This was shown on the 20p value of the set released in 1990 to commemorate the 150^th anniversary of Kew Gardens

United Kingdom	29/05/1968	British Anniversaries 4v The top value 1/9d stamp commemorates the Bicentenary of Cook's First Voyage of Discovery. The stamp shows a side view of the Endeavour and James Cook's signature.
United Kingdom	01/11/1970	Explorer Series Booklets The 10/- booklet (SG XP12) features Cook on the cover. The stamps included in the booklet are ordinary pre-decimal Machins.
United Kingdom	05/06/1990	150th Anniversary of Kew Gardens 4v The 20p stamp in this set shows a Cycad plant and the Sir Joseph Banks Building at Kew Gardens.
United Kingdom	16/02/1993	300th Birth Anniversary of John Harrison 4v All four stamps in this set show the face, workings and case of Harrison's chronometer.
United Kingdom	25/03/1997	Captain Cook Aerogramme This was released to coincide with the maiden voyage of the Endeavour Replica. There were 107525 sold.
United Kingdom	12/01/1999	Millennium: The Inventors' Tale 4v The design for the 20p stamp in this set is based on Harrison's chronometer. Four adapted 64p versions of this stamp were released in the Millennium Timekeeper miniature sheet (14/12/1999).
United Kingdom	02/02/1999	Millennium: The Travellers' Tale 4v The 63p stamp in this set is called 'Cook's Endeavour' and shows the well known portrait of Cook by Nathaniel Dance, along with a portrait of a tattooed Maori.