The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners.

Melbourne's vandalised Captain Cook monument is unlikely to be replaced after it was knocked over in a slew of anti-Australia Day activity across the country. An email sent to City of Yarra ...

On the eve of Australia Day, a Captain Cook statue in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs was attacked and vandalised, with red paint ...

A Captain Cook statue was covered in red paint and smashed just two days before Australia Day celebrations are set to begin. The monument of the famed British explorer James Cook is located in ...

A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before Australia's national ...

The statue in Sydney’s east was splashed in red paint and had its hand and nose knocked off, the second time it has been ...

The vandalism unfolded in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Australia Day is a divisive holiday that critics see as a symbol of ...

Captain James Cook (1728 – 1779), British explorer, navigator and cartographer. Woodcut engraving after a painting by Nathaniel Dance-Holland (English painter, 1735 - 1811), published in 1882.

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's east has been splashed with red paint and had the sandstone damaged for the second time in 12 months.

A Captain Cook statue and Queen Victoria monument in Melbourne have both been vandalised ahead of Australia Day. Members of the public reported the vandalism to the Captain Cook statue in Jacka Blvd, ...

The statue in Sydney’s east was splashed in red paint and had its hand and nose knocked off, the second time it has been ...