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====U.S.A.==== A U.S. coin, the 1928 [[Hawaii Sesquicentennial half-dollar]], carries Cook's image. Minted for the 150th anniversary of his discovery of the islands, its low mintage (10,008) has made this example of an [[Early United States commemorative coins|early United States commemorative coin]] both scarce and expensive.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coinsite.com/content/commemoratives/Hawaii.asp |title=Hawaii Sesquicentennial Half Dollar |work=coinsite.com |year=2011 |access-date=8 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814135925/http://www.coinsite.com/content/Commemoratives/Hawaii.asp |archive-date=14 August 2011}}</ref> The [[Kealakekua Bay|site where he was killed in Hawaii]] was marked in 1874 by a white obelisk. This land, although in Hawaii, was deeded to the United Kingdom by Princess [[Likelike]] and her husband, [[Archibald Scott Cleghorn]], to the British Consul to Hawaii, James Hay Wodehouse, in 1877.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gray |first1=Chris |title=Captain Cook's little corner of Hawaii under threat from new golf |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/captain-cooks-little-corner-of-hawaii-under-threat-from-new-golf-course-623120.html |access-date=12 January 2018 |work=The Independent |date=11 November 2000 |archive-date=6 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180506175006/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/captain-cooks-little-corner-of-hawaii-under-threat-from-new-golf-course-623120.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Coulter |first=John Wesley |date=June 1964 |title=Great Britain in Hawaii: The Captain Cook Monument |journal=The Geographical Journal |publisher=The Royal Geographical Society |location=London |volume=130 |issue=2 |pages=256β261 |doi=10.2307/1794586 |jstor=1794586 |bibcode=1964GeogJ.130..256C}}</ref>{{Failed verification|reason=article says land was bought by British consul general, and its status is unclear, not that it was deeded to the UK |date=April 2020}} A nearby town is named [[Captain Cook, Hawaii]]; several Hawaiian businesses also carry his name. The [[Apollo 15]] [[Apollo Command/Service Module|Command/Service Module]] ''Endeavour'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Call Signs |url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_18-17_Call_Signs.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228032512/https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_18-17_Call_Signs.htm |archive-date=28 February 2020 |access-date=21 May 2011 |publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref> the {{ship|Space Shuttle|Endeavour||6}},<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/Endeavour.html |work=John F. Kennedy Space Center website |title=Space Shuttle Endeavour |publisher=NASA |access-date=21 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521101826/http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/endeavour.html |archive-date=21 May 2011}}</ref> and the [[Crew Dragon Endeavour|Crew Dragon ''Endeavour'']];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-053020a-spacex-crew-dragon-name-endeavour.html |title=Astronauts name SpaceX spaceship 'Endeavour' after retired shuttle |date=30 May 2020 |access-date=2 June 2020 |archive-date=3 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603035942/http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-053020a-spacex-crew-dragon-name-endeavour.html |url-status=live}}</ref> are named after Cook's ship. Another Space Shuttle, [[Space Shuttle Discovery|''Discovery'']], was named after Cook's {{HMS|Discovery|1774|6}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/Discovery.html |work=John F. Kennedy Space Center website |title=Space Shuttle Discovery |publisher=NASA |access-date=21 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610033909/http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/Discovery.html |archive-date=10 June 2011}}</ref> There is also a [[Statue of James Cook (Anchorage, Alaska)|statue of Cook]] at Resolution Park in [[Anchorage, Alaska]].
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