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.

James Cook’s first voyage of exploration which saw him become the first European to lay eyes on Australia took nearly three ...

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...

January 18: On his third and final voyage to the Pacific Ocean, British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit the Hawai'ian Islands. He is welcomed by the islanders ...

Shells from Captain James Cook’s final voyage were thought lost ... hitting public display for the first time in more than 100 years. Among the collection, there’s a thorny oyster, a sunburst ...

The first encounters between the native peoples ... David Hemblen plays Capt. James Cook in Canada: A People's History. By the nineteenth century, Europeans and Indians were into the third century ...