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Cooks’ Cottage

Cooks' Cottage, also known as Captain Cook's Cottage, is located in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, Australia. The cottage was constructed in 1755 in the English village of , , by the parents of Captain James Cook, James and Grace Cook.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Melbourne Cricket Ground and Fitzroy Gardens.

Stadium
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The , also known locally as the 'G', is an Australian sports stadium located in , Melbourne, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, the eleventh-largest stadium globally and the second-largest cricket stadium by capacity. is situated 690 metres southeast of Cooks’ Cottage.

Park
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY 2.5.
The are 26 hectares located on the southeastern edge of the in , Victoria, Australia.

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The is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed building in , Victoria, , built in 1879–1880 as part of the international exhibition movement, which presented over 50 exhibitions between 1851 and 1915 around the globe. is situated 1¼ km northwest of Cooks’ Cottage.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jolimont and Chinatown.

Neighborhood
is an unbounded neighbourhood of the suburb of East Melbourne, Victoria, . Situated to the south east of the city's primary axis, features parks, business precincts and a limited amount of residential accommodation.

Neighborhood
Photo: Sgroey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an ethnic enclave in the of , Victoria, Australia. Centred at the eastern end of Little Bourke Street, it extends between the corners of Swanston and Spring streets, and consists of numerous laneways, alleys and arcades.

Photo: Nicolás Boullosa, CC BY 2.0.
The of consists of a number of suburbs and localities within the Yarra municipality. Compared with glitzy on the other side of the river, the inner eastern area is known among Melburnians as a working-class district, filled with pubs and old factories.

Cooks’ Cottage

Latitude
-37.81449° or 37° 48′ 52″ south
Longitude
144.97945° or 144° 58′ 46″ east
Inception
October 15th, 1934
Levels
2
Open location code
4RJ65XPH+6Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 666255789
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Wiki­data ID
Q1129647
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Wu Chinese—“Cooks’ Cottage” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “库克船长小屋”
  • Chinese: “庫克小屋”
  • Dutch: “Cooks‘ Cottage”
  • Esperanto: “Cooks‘ Cottage”
  • Esperanto: “Cooks’ Cottage”
  • French: “Cooks’ Cottage”
  • German: “Cook’s Cottage”
  • Hausa: “Gidan Gida na Masu dafa abinci”
  • Japanese: “クックの小屋”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cooks‘ Cottage”
  • Norwegian: “Cooks’ Cottage”
  • Russian: “Коттедж капитана Джеймса Кука”
  • Ukrainian: “Котедж Кука”
  • Wu Chinese: “Captain Cook’s Cottage”
  • Wu Chinese: “Cooks‘ cottage”
  • Wu Chinese: “库克船长个小房子”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cooks’ Cottage”. Photo: CloudSurfer, CC BY-SA 3.0.