Halcyon leucocephala, grey-headed kingfisher. Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to explore the southern seas, 1772-75. Captain James Cook's ...

Shells from Captain James Cook’s final voyage were thought lost, but it turns out that a lecturer had pulled them from a dumpster 40 years ago. The collection, with roughly 200 specimens from ...

January 18: On his third and final voyage to the Pacific Ocean, British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit the Hawai'ian Islands. He is welcomed by the islanders ...

Capt. James Cook is justly famous for his voyages of exploration in ... that brought him command of what became his famous Pacific expeditions. In telling this story, Ransom also gives the reader a ...

On the 17th of January 1775, English Captain James Cook landed at Possession Bay in ... departed Plymouth Sound in July 1772 on an expedition to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible ...

David Hemblen plays Capt. James Cook in Canada: A People's History. By the nineteenth century, Europeans and Indians were into the third century of their uneven relationship but there had still ...

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 ...

Captain Cook statue disfigured and painted red in Sydney ahead of Australia Day - Police say they are investigating incident which saw statue’s hand and nose knocked off ...

The statue in Sydney has been splashed with red paint and had its nose and hand removed. The rare item had interest from all over the world, an auction house in Royal Wootton Bassett said.

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 ...