Nicholas Young (sailor)

For other people named Nicholas Young, see Nicholas Young (disambiguation).

Nicholas Young (born c. 1757) was a British cabin boy aboard the Endeavour during Captain James Cook's first voyage of discovery. In 1769, Cook named the headland Young Nick's Head in Poverty Bay, New Zealand after him.[1] In The Remarkable Story of Andrew Swan,[a] it is stated that Young hailed from Greenock, on the Clyde.[2]

Bronze statue of "Young Nick" at Waikanae Beach, Gisborne.
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  2. ^ Mackay, Joseph Angus (1949). Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z. pp. 16–20.


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