If you were to pull this average Australian away from the barbecue for just one moment and ask why we celebrate on the 26th, you’d likely get a vague answer that mentions Captain Cook ...

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney ... incident in February last year. Cook arrived in Sydney Cove in 1770 where he and his crew landed at Botany Bay, opening up the continent now known ...

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been splashed with red paint and its hand removed days before Australians celebrate their controversial “Australia Day” on Sunday. New ...

Australia Day, as many see it, with people, boats, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and James Cook statue. Artwork: Frank Ling Sources ... Cook arrived at Botany Bay, bunged a flag ...

The 15 chapters that constitute Aboriginal Australians detail the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from the time of James Cook’s arrival in Botany Bay in 1788 (“The Eora ...

When Captain James Cook sailed in through the heads of Kamay Botany Bay in 1770, he described gunyas dotted along the foreshore in his search for water: Saw as we came in on both points of the bay ...

The east coast of New Holland was claimed by British Captain James Cook in 1770 who renamed the land New South Wales. In due course, this led to the First Fleet landing at Botany Bay in 1888 and the ...

Unfortunately, it was soon realised that the bay was not as favourable as they had hoped. The previous accounts by the navigator Captain James Cook had somewhat misled the crew into believing this ...

For now anyway, he's quite content to know he has an exciting 3-year-old in Captain Cook who can be pointed to another lucrative stakes. "It feels good that we can head him towards another big ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share NEW YORK (AP) — Captain Cook won the $250,000 Withers by 2 1/4 lengths at Aqueduct on Saturday ...

NEW YORK -- Captain Cook won the $250,000 Withers by 2 1/4 lengths at Aqueduct on Saturday, putting the 3-year-old colt squarely on the Kentucky Derby trail. Ridden by Manny Franco, Captain Cook ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Captain Cook won the $250,000 Withers by 2 1/4 lengths at Aqueduct on Saturday, putting the 3-year-old colt squarely on the Kentucky Derby trail. Ridden by Manny Franco ...