Captain James Cook
The Captain James Cook statue stands near Admiralty Arch at the entrance to The Mall in London’s City of Westminster. You see a bronze figure on a stone plinth, positioned among the monuments and memorials of St James’s Park.
Sir Thomas Brock designed the sculpture in 1914, and Prince Arthur of Connaught unveiled it on 7 July that year. The inscription presents Cook as a circumnavigator, Pacific explorer and chartmaker of Newfoundland and Canada’s eastern and western approaches. It also credits his voyages with laying foundations for the British Empire in Australia and New Zealand.
The Mall stretches from Admiralty Arch towards Buckingham Palace and has carried royal processions, state ceremonies and other national occasions for centuries. One small detail gathers the whole setting together: the plinth records Cook’s life as 1728 to 1779 beneath the bronze figure.
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