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I recently visited the Karakakooa bay on
the (Big) Hawaii island, where Cook was killed.

You can see the photos in
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko/cook
The North shore of the bay, where the landing occured, is not accessible
from the land. One can rent a kayak
(kayak.jpg) from the South shore (bay.jpg, PA100483.JPG;
you can see the monument on the opposite shore
if your screen has enough resolution).

The death place is marked with a plate installed
in the water (plate1.jpg, plate2.jpg,
plate3.jpg). It is slightly above the water level
during the low tide (plate4.jpg, kayak.jpg).

There is also a white monument on the shore nearby
(monument1.jpg, monument2.jpg), and several
plates installed by various people and organizations
near the white monuments (PA100474.JPG). The general views of
the place
are cook1.jpg, cook2.jpg and shore.jpg.
There is a coral reef there with very clear water,
so many people are diving (the rest of the pictures).

The coordinates of the place (the anchor places of Resolution
and Discovery
are in the bay which is deep enough, close to the N shore; they are
marked on
one of the original maps of Cook's third expedition;
copies of all maps are available at Purdue library), determined by
Cook are 20d17'N, 156d00'W; comparison with Terraserver
gives errors less than 1' in latitude and approx 6' in longitude.
They used both chronometers and Lunars in the third voyage.

Alex.

P.S. You can also see a good view of the place from above
on Google Earth.



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