The statue of a person some call an "explorer" and others call a "colonizer" has been vandalized in Australia. English naval ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before ...

Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.

Capt. James Cook is justly famous for his voyages of exploration in the ... Cook rose rapidly to "master," the senior seaman aboard ship. In the process he acquired the skills as a navigator, surveyor ...

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.

Australia Day is known to some Indigenous Australians as Invasion Day, symbolising a key moment in the destruction of their ...

SYDNEY >> A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before ...

David Hemblen plays Capt. James Cook in Canada ... visit was from the renowned English navigator James Cook, who anchored at Ship Cove (now Resolution Cove on Vancouver Island) for a month ...

Police in Sydney are investigating after a statue of British explorer Captain James Cook was sprayed ... near the statue of Cook, the captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast ...