the monument
shown in the photograph below is in the North Yorkshire village of Great
Ayton. It is erected on the land where “Captain Cook’s Cottage” once stood,
and the top plaque bears the following inscription…

Lieutenant James Cook RN of the Endeavour first sighted Australia
near this point which he named Point Hicks after Lieutenant Zachary Hicks
who first saw the land April 19th (Ship’s log date) April 20th (calendar date) 1770.


The lower plaque reads as follows;
This monument is made of stones hewn from the rocks of Cape Everard,
close to Point Hicks, Victoria and is a facsimile of the memorial erected
there. It marks the site of Captain Cook’s Cottage removed to Melbourne
in Victoria’s centenary year 1934. Presented by W.Russell Grimwade.

Note from; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Hicks
Point Hicks is where, on 19 April 1770, the continent of Australia was first sighted
by the men on Captain Cook’s Endeavour voyage. Cook records that it was
Lieutenant Zachary Hickes who first saw land, and Cook named the point after him.
Hickes spelt his name with an "e", Cook wrote both Hicks and Hickes in different
places; the spelling Hicks is now in use for the point.
C U on the email, keith 