Captain Cook, Public Arcives of Canada Towards the end of his journeys, just after his discovery of the Hawaiian Islands, he headed towards North America's uncharted Northwest Coast. There was ...

After English Captain Cook was killed by Hawaiians at Kealakekua, Hawaii, on Feb. 14, 1779, Captain Clerke took command of Cook’s ships Resolution and Discovery and prepared to resume Cook’s ...

The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners.

THE consideration of Cook as the ‘physician’ rather than the astronomer, surveyor and explorer well deserves this pleasant story. It is the central theme, which the author is well qualified to ...

250 years after Captain James Cook began his epic exploration of the Pacific, Sam Neill journeys in his wake uncovering stories that resonate from those times on both sides of the beach. Watch all ...

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 ...

The museum sits close to where British explorer James Cook was born A museum dedicated to 18th Century British explorer Captain James Cook has reopened for the season, but future funding for the ...

A museum dedicated to 18th Century British explorer Captain James Cook has reopened for the season, but future funding for the site remains uncertain. The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum in ...