They are all that remain from a collection of 40-50 stolen by James Cook and the crew of ... the Hawaiians were immediately ...

The RRS James Cook is a scientific vessel operated by the Natural Environment Research Council of the United Kingdom (NERC) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). More specifically, the ship's ...

The four spears were taken by Captain Cook's crew during their first contact with Australia in 1770. Captain Cook Square is being redeveloped into a leisure destination to attract new businesses.

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

The new coin features the HMS Resolution, the ship that was captained by James Cook. The year 2020 marks the bicentenary of the reign of George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king. During his ...

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 ...

Australia Day is known to some Indigenous Australians as Invasion Day, symbolising a key moment in the destruction of their ...

After a 20-year search for the final resting place of Captain James Cook’s famous ship HMB Endeavour, maritime archaeologists are finally closing in on its wreck in the US state of Rhode Island.

The first prolonged visit was from the renowned English navigator James Cook, who anchored at Ship Cove (now Resolution Cove on Vancouver Island) for a month in 1778. In the 18th century there ...