In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific ... Yes, we explore to find a better place to live or acquire a larger territory ...

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.

The first encounters between the native peoples of Canada and the Europeans took place on the East Coast, and it wasn't until many years later that natives on the West Coast began meeting the ...

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 ...