Captain Cook, Hawaii Captain Cook, Hawaii Captain Cook is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, in the United States, located in the District of South Kona. The community, within the land division of Kealakekua, is so named because the post office for the area was located in the Captain Cook Coffee Co. during the early 1900s. As of the 2010 census the CDP population was 3,429, up from 3,206 at the 2000 census. Captain Cook is located on the west side of the island of Hawaii at (19.498211, -155.904275). It is bordered to the north by Kealakekua and to the south
Five Visions of Captain Cook Five Visions of Captain Cook "Five Visions of Captain Cook" (1931) is a poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. It was originally published in the author's collection "Trio : A Book of Poems", and later appeared in numerous poetry anthologies. The poem "builds the character of Captain James Cook from the reactions of those who sailed with him on his three major voyages." In the essay "Kenneth Slessor : An Essay in Interpretation" (1997) A. K. Thompson noted: "The more carefully we read Cook's Journals the more impressive and convincing Slessor's reconstruction becomes and also the more unlikely it appears