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 the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific ... to 50,000 years earlier. Cook’s journey, meanwhile, continued a westward ...

His memorials have been the focus of Australia Day protests in recent years but Captain James Cook's life and death show he ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James ... Cook sailed in seven years later on his second Pacific voyage, Mai requested passage, becoming the ...

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 ...

This fourth episode of Captain’s Log sees host Peter Elliott journeying around the bottom of the South Island, tracing the end of James Cook’s first journey around New Zealand. The precarious ...