Based on Captain James Cook's three voyages ... He later recommended Australia as a future British colony. The series was financed by $5 million from Revcom France, $2.25 million from the ABC ...

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

A statue of Captain James ... Cook arrived in Sydney Cove in 1770 where he and his crew landed at Botany Bay, opening up the continent now known as Australia to colonisation by the British Crown.

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb ... at the ankles on the eve of Australia Day. The vandals wrote on the plinth of the statue: “The colony will fall.” ...

The first encounters between the native peoples of Canada and the Europeans took place on the East Coast, and it wasn't until many years later that natives on the West Coast began meeting the ...

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.