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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 ...

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

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery which would push the borders of the British Empire to the ends of the earth.

SYDNEY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Captain Cook was sent as far south as possible to ... inhabitants to the then British monarch - King George III - whose portrait appears on the other side. The medal has the two ships commissioned ...