Zachary Hickes
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'''Zachary Hickes''' (c.[[1729]] – [[25 May]] [[1771]]) was a [[Royal Navy]] officer, second-in-command on [[James Cook|Lieutenant James Cook]]'s voyage to the east coast of [[Australia]]. Hickes spelt his name with an "e", but it has often been written by others (including Cook) as Hicks without the "e".
Hickes was 29 and held the rank of lieutenant when appointed to Cook's voyage in the [[HM Bark Endeavour|''Endeavour'']] in [[1768]]. He had previously served on other ships as master's mate and as acting lieutenant. On the ''Endeavour'' he was credited with locating [[Hicks Bay]] in [[New Zealand]], and then with being the first to see the mainland of [[Australia]] at [[Point Hicks]] (land was sighted on his morning watch). Cook named both those places after him.
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Hickes died at the Dutch port of [[Jakarta|Batavia]] on the homeward leg of the voyage in [[1771]] while the ship was undergoing repairs, and he was buried at sea there. The port was rife with fever and [[dysentery]] at that time, but Hickes died of a consumption which Cook records he had carried ever since leaving England (though it seems not to have interfered with his duties).
== References ==
* {{gutenberg|no=8106|name=Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World}}
* [[Ray Parkin]], ''H. M. Bark Endeavour'', [[Miegunyah Press]], second edition 2003, ISBN 0-522-85093-6
== See also ==
Named after Hickes:
* [[Hicks Bay]], in New Zealand
* [[Point Hicks]], in Australia
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[[Category:Burials at sea]]