Editing James Cook (section)

==Arms==
{{Infobox COA wide
| image             = James_Cook_Coat_of_Arms.svg
| year_adopted      = 3 September 1785
| crest             = On a Wreath of the Colours, An Arm embowed, vested in the Uniform of a Captain of the Royal Navy, in the Hand the Union-Jack on a Staff proper; the Arm encircled by a Wreath of Palm and Laurel.<ref name=arms/>
| escutcheon        = Azure, between the two Polar Stars Or, a Sphere on the plane of the Meridian, North Pole elevated, Circles of Latitude for every ten degrees and of Longitude for fifteen, showing the Pacific Ocean between fifty and two hundred and forty West, bounded on one side by America, on the other by Asia and [[New Holland]], in memory of his having explored and made Discoveries in that Ocean so very far beyond all former Navigators; His Track thereon marked with red Lines.<ref name=arms>{{Cite web 
|publisher=The State Library of New South Wales
|url=https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n88ElePn
 |access-date=29 January 2023 
|title=Grant of Arms Made to Mrs Cook and to Cook's Descendants in 1785
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129163800/https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n88ElePn
 |archive-date=29 January 2023
}} Includes a photograph of the original grant of arms, as well as a full description.
</ref>
| motto             = '''Nil Intentatum Reliquit''' (He left nothing unattempted) and '''Circa Orbem''' (Around the world). 
| notes             =  Cook's [[English heraldry|coat of arms]] was granted to his widowed wife, the only known example of a posthumous grant.<ref>{{Cite web 
|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/makingamark/teaching-resources/objects/cook-coat-of-arms
 |access-date=29 January 2023
 |title=Cook Coat of Arms 
|publisher=National Portrait Gallery
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129164549/https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/makingamark/teaching-resources/objects/cook-coat-of-arms
 |archive-date=29 January 2023
}}
</ref> [[Elizabeth Batts Cook]] petitioned for the grant six years after his death to preserve the memory of her late husband and to be placed on any monuments and memorials.<ref>{{Cite web 
|url=https://www.captaincooksociety.com/home/detail/cook-s-coat-of-arms 
|access-date=29 January 2023
|publisher= Captain Cook Society
 |title=Cook's Coat of Arms
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630202740/https://www.captaincooksociety.com/home/detail/cook-s-coat-of-arms
 |archive-date=30 June 2022
}}</ref>
}}