The coin was originally a medal from Captain Cook’s second voyage of discovery. The renowned British explorer and naval officer set sail from Plymouth in July 1772 after being commissioned by ...

Joshua Reynolds’s famed Portrait of Mai (around 1776)—which was jointly acquired by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in ...

The Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation, a registered Western Australian charity driven by a dedicated team of staff and ...

Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to ...

May explores the stories of Christopher Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain James Cook in a new Channel 5 series.

“You are,” Smith says as I stare at the newly exposed bright filigree of the Viking sword found in a river I have spent a lifetime crossing, “only the sixth person to see this decoration since the ...

It was a British ship that was best known for its first voyage (1769-71) with James Cook as captain. On that voyage, Cook brought Endeavour to Tahiti to watch the transit of Venus across the sun.

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A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...

9 THE WIDE WIDE SEA (Doubleday, $35). By Hampton Sides. An account of the explorer Captain James Cook’s ill-fated final voyage. 10 THE LET THEM THEORY (Hay House, $29.99). By Mel Robbins.