Kapela has introduced a resolution requesting the U.S. Census Bureau to rename the town of Captain Cook to Kaʻawaloa, meaning “long landing place.” The idea has broad support.

State lawmakers are weighing a resolution seeking to change the name of Captain Cook on Hawaii island back to Kaawaloa. The U.S. Census Bureau renamed the census-designated place in the 1920s ...

A resolution asking the Census to re-designate Captain Cook as Ka‘awaloa was shelved this legislative session. Introduced by Rep. Jeanne Kapela (D-Naalehu, Ocean View, Captain Cook, and Kailua ...

A resolution asking the Census to re-designate Captain Cook as Ka‘awaloa has crossed over to the state Senate. Introduced by Rep. Jeanne Kapela (D-Naalehu, Ocean View, Captain Cook, and Kailua ...

BIG ISLAND (KITV4) -- Captain Cook is a town on the Big Island south of Kona with a population of about 3,400 people. But for Shane Akoni Nelson, he knows it as his ancestral home Ka'awaloa, which ...

On Valentine’s Day, 1779, Captain James Cook invited Hawaii’s King Kalani‘ōpu‘u to visit his ship, the Resolution. Cook and the King were on friendly terms, but, on this particular day ...

Native boats gather around the Resolution and Discovery in Alaska’s glacier-rimmed Prince William Sound. (Engraving, after Webber’s sketch, published in 1784 in A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...

When Captain James Cook entered the Bering Strait in 1778, he did it with pride in his king and country, as evidenced by the Union Jack flying high over the HMS Resolution.

It was on March 7, 1778, that British explorer Captain James Cook arrived just off the coast of what’s now Oregon. Cook and his expedition crew aboard the ships Resolution and Discovery ...

IF novelist AN Wilson’s new book had a moment of creation, it probably happened in a secondhand book shop in London. At the time, Wilson was… ...