Should they encounter the British captain James Cook ... in a northeasterly direction across the vast expanse of the Pacific, Cook was surprised when, in January 1788, he came upon an archipelago ...

The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum faces closure ... and added more than 5,000 miles of shoreline to the map of the Pacific. His next voyage met with similar success, earning him both fame ...

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 ...

His memorials have been the focus of Australia Day protests in recent years but Captain James Cook's life and death show he was no xenophobe, writes DAVID ELLERY.

For now anyway, he's quite content to know he has an exciting 3-year-old in Captain Cook who can be pointed to another lucrative stakes. "It feels good that we can head him towards another big ...