Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Lieutenant James Cook and the crew of HMB Endeavour stepped ashore in Botany Bay in April 1770 – during their exploration of ...

Some call it “dark tourism”. American wit and travel author PJ O’Rourke dubbed it “holidays in hell”. Visiting places of ...

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One name came from a frustrated French explorer; another irked PETA so much, there was a petition for its name to change. Let ...

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I stepped on deck for HMB Endeavour’s voyage from Hobart to Sydney, the return leg of the ship’s first outing on the open sea ...

This electorate is named after Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook, who first landed at Kurnell in 1770. The name also commemorates Sir Joseph Cook, Prime Minister 1913-14. Despite its place as ...

1770 – Captain James Cook arrived at an attractive (well it would've been back then) bay in this great southern land, which he promptly dubbed Sting Ray Harbour. Presumably because of bulk ...

The US military began a chaotic evacuation of citizens from Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, on April 29, 1975, in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces. Operation Frequent Wind was the ...

Robin Reed, 46, and his son Owen, 17, from Caerphilly, South Wales, were swept out to sea on April 13 while swimming at Round ...

The pair are said to have got into difficulty while swimming at a beach in the town of Seventeen Seventy in Queensland.