Captain James Cook

Historical marker location:

, Anchorage, Alaska

( Marker can be reached from L Street.)

Marker installed: 1976

R.N., F.R.S.. Navigator, Explorer, Chartmaker, Scientist, Humanist / 1728 1779

Alaska has long attracted dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives.