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James Cook is considered one of the greatest navigators and explorers of all time. A British naval captain, navigator, and explorer, Cook famously charted New Zealand in 1770 and later made ...
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.
In “The Wide Wide Sea,” Hampton Sides offers a fuller picture of the British explorer’s final voyage to the Pacific islands.
An Australian local government has decided against repairing an often-vandalized monument to British explorer James Cook because it would be destroyed again.
The British explorer who sailed the uncharted Pacific Ocean in the 1700s, and who was killed in Hawaii, initiated a period of colonization that obscured the histories of Native Islanders, a legacy ...
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.
A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been splashed with red paint and its hand removed days before Australians celebrate their controversial “Australia Day” on Sunday.
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 ...
Tasked to find the fabled great southern land that others before him had glimpsed, Captain James Cook's arrival on the east coast of Australia on April 29, 1770 changed the course of history.
Yet another statue of Captain James Cook has been destroyed in the wake of vandalism that destroyed a different sculpture of the famous explorer.
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