On the anniversary of Captain Cook’s first voyage to Australia, we consider the history of exploration through four objects including a map of sea monsters and a robot used for navigation ...

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.

A medal marking Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery in 1772 has sold ... to future explorers that Captain Cook had been the first to reach unexplored lands and also to introduce ...