But colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from his ...

Mount Taranaki - now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name - is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand and stands at 8,261 feet ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New ...

A mountain in New Zealand is now officially recognised as a human. Considered an ancestor by Indigenous people, the mountain ...

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law after years of negotiations. It means Taranaki Maunga [Mt Taranaki] will effectively ...

The statue of a person some call an "explorer" and others call a "colonizer" has been vandalized in Australia. English naval ...

Police in Australia launched an investigation on Friday after a statue of British naval officer James Cook was found ...

While Cook is historically recognised as the explorer who charted and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, his arrival is also seen as a prelude to the violent colonisation, ...