The British explorer who sailed the uncharted Pacific Ocean in the 1700s, ... An engraving, published in 1850, depicting the death of Captain James Cook in Hawaii in 1779.

UNTIL RECENTLY Captain James Cook was not a particularly controversial figure. But in January a statue of the 18th-century British explorer was toppled in Melbourne and the words “The colony ...

In January 1779, when the British explorer James Cook sailed into a volcanic bay known by Hawaiians as “the Pathway of the Gods,” he beheld thousands of people seemingly waiting for him on shore.

Researchers with the Australian National Maritime Museum have discovered Capt. Cook’s famous lost ship Endeavour, closing the book on a maritime mystery that has endured for 250 years.

Bestselling author Hampton Sides takes readers on a high-seas adventure in his latest book, "The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook." ...

The location of the HMS Endeavour, a lost ship belonging to 18th-century British explorer Captain James Cook, has been confirmed as Rhode Island's Newport Harbor.