Australia’s national day, which falls today, has two purposes. It is an opportunity for Australians to celebrate who they are ...

May explores the stories of Christopher Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain James Cook in a new Channel 5 series.

While Cook is historically recognised as the explorer who charted and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, his arrival is also seen as a prelude to the violent colonisation, ...

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney ... This is because Cook’s expedition paved the way for the 1788 decision to send the First Fleet led by Captain Arthur ...

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7. The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides (Doubleday: $35) An epic account of Capt. James Cook's final voyage. 8. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari (Random House: $35) How the flow of information has shaped ...

The prime minister claims deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley disrespected Indigenous people with an analogy comparing the First ...

The first antarctic expedition falls into that period which ... by the American Museum of Natural History, that in 1772, Capt. Cook, of the British Navy, was commissioned by the Admiralty to ...

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It was a British ship that was best known for its first voyage (1769-71) with James Cook as captain. On that voyage, Cook brought Endeavour to Tahiti to watch the transit of Venus across the sun.