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 ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, two worlds collided: Captain James Cook set foot on Australian soil. To some he is a courageous explorer; to others he is a coloniser who stole land from the first ...

Items taken by Captain James Cook and documented by his botanist ... display at a new permanent facility on the very site, at Botany Bay, from where they were taken in 1770. Ray Ingrey again ...

Early explorer records indicate Botany Bay was bountiful with oysters, which Captain James Cook himself described ... Both oysters became a food source and a building material for the colonists.

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 ...