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.

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific ... to 50,000 years earlier. Cook’s journey, meanwhile, continued a westward ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James ... Cook sailed in seven years later on his second Pacific voyage, Mai requested passage, becoming the ...

Shells from Captain James Cook’s final voyage ... The tumultuous journey of the shells—matching the wild third voyage that saw Cook killed in a dispute with locals while on the Hawaiian ...

The statue in Sydney has been splashed with red paint and had its nose and hand removed. The rare item had interest from all over the world, an auction house in Royal Wootton Bassett said.

On the 17th of January 1775, English Captain James ... first issue commemorates Possession itself and the start of South Georgia’s 250-year journey from obscurity to the modern age. Cook and ...

This fourth episode of Captain’s Log sees host Peter Elliott journeying around the bottom of the South Island, tracing the end of James Cook’s first journey around New Zealand. The precarious ...