In memory of the third English expedition of captain James cook, in the center of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky installed Russia's only monument to the English Navigator Charles Clark.

Charles Clark was a member of the first and second expeditions of James cook, became his assistant in the third world cruise. But after the tragic death of cook was headed by the third trip around the world.

In April 1779 expedition ships "discovery" and "resolution" went to Petropavlovsk Harbor for resupply of food and water. June 12, 1779, the ships came out of Avacha Bay toward the Bering sea, but the ice blocked their way. Tried in vain the mariners to break through the ice barrier, the crew was crippled by disease, and on August 22 Charles Clark died from pulmonary phthisis. According to his last wishes, the ashes of the captain was buried in the village of Paratunka. In 1914, representatives of the Admiralty of great Britain in the center of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was a monument in honor of the brave captain.

October 17, 2003, the monument was reconstructed.