His name is synonymous with Whitby and he became a household name after embarking on voyages to New Zealand, Australia and ...

Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.

In August 1768, under the command of then-Lieutenant James Cook ... to the South Seas in His Majesty's Ship the Endeavour [1768-1871] … by Sydney Parkinson (1773) Source: The Natural History Museum, ...

The first prolonged visit was from the renowned English navigator James Cook, who anchored at Ship Cove (now Resolution ... and the Sandwich Islands. Captain Cook, Public Arcives of Canada Towards ...

When he was young, Cook was a keen apprentice in Whitby on coal ships ... Endeavour, and learn all about the unorthodox collecting methods employed by chief scientist Joseph Banks. Initially, Cook is ...

Four spears stolen by Captain James Cook and his crew after he ... The spears were among 40 recorded as being taken onto Captain Cook's ship, the Endeavour, in 1770, at the time of first contact ...