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.

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery which would push the borders of the British Empire to the ends of the earth.

City of Yarra will not reinstate the Captain Cook monument in Fitzroy North’s Edinburgh Gardens because it says repeated vandal attacks have made it too costly to repair. Instead the plaque ...