Cook captained the HMS Resolution on a voyage to find land mass in the southern seas, sailing alongside Captain Charles Clerke on the HMS Discovery. Cook was accompanied by the naturalists Johann ...

Shells collected by Captain Cook’s crew were “miraculously” saved ... as armourer under Cook during his third voyage on HMS Resolution. Another shell is that of the giant clam and the ...

In 1778 the explorer Captain James Cook was in the Pacific, on board 'HMS Resolution', looking for the North West Passage, hoping to find a sea-route over the north of Canada that would connect ...

marking 247 years since the first landing on the island was made by Captain James Cook. The British explorer was on his second world voyage aboard HMS Resolution. Many had made sightings of the ...

English explorer captain James Cook aboard HMS Resolution named the Island 'Isle of Georgia' in honor of the then Monarch, King George III of Great Britain and Ireland. In the bay where Cook ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain ... the Resolution and the Discovery. They left England in July 1776. In addition to Cook’s story, other ...

In 1778 the explorer Captain James Cook was in the Pacific, on board 'HMS Resolution', looking for the North West Passage, hoping to find a sea-route over the north of Canada that would connect ...