Captain Cook, Hawaii by Honaunau-Napoopoo. Hawaii Route 11, part of the Hawaii Belt Road, passes through the community, leading north to Kailua-Kona and south to Naalehu. Hawaii Route 160 diverges from Route 11 in Captain Cook, leading south by a winding road to Napoopoo on Kealakekua Bay. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Captain Cook CDP has a total area of , all of it land. Most of Captain Cook lies between the and elevation, which makes it ideal as a coffee-growing region. It sits on the top of an ancient fault which created the famous Kealakekua Bay. Prior to the
Captain Cook (1826 ship) Portsmouth, England on 5 May 1833 with 230 male convicts. She arrived in Sydney on 26 August 1833 and had four convict deaths en route. On the third convict voyage, under the command of George Brown and surgeon Arthur Savage, she departed Cork, Ireland on 5 July 1836 with 229 male convicts. She arrived in Sydney on 13 November 1836 and had one convict death en route. Captain Cook (1826 ship) Captain Cook was a 452-ton merchant ship built at Whitby, England in 1826. She made three voyages transporting convicts from Ireland and England to Australia. On her first convict