The local authority said it was not naming the benefactor while discussions were continuing, but added an announcement would ...

A museum dedicated to 18th Century British explorer Captain James Cook has reopened for the season, but future funding for ...

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THE consideration of Cook as the ‘physician’ rather than the astronomer, surveyor and explorer well deserves this pleasant story. It is the central theme, which the author is well qualified to ...

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...

During his reign in 1775, explorer Capt. Cook made the first landing, survey and mapping of South Georgia in the HMS Resolution. Cook was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer in the Royal Navy.

Capt Scott famously made it there in January 1912 only to find he had been pipped to the post a month earlier by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. On their return journey across Antarctica ...

Named for legendary explorer Captain James Cook, who first docked in Anchorage in 1778, the hotel pays tribute to him by displaying a thoroughly nautical theme.