A talk in celebration of World Oceans Day will present a modern perspective of Captain James Cook. Hampton Sides, a historian ...

It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook. It stands just feet from where he died. Akoni Palacat-Nelsen is a native Hawaiian (or kanaka, as they call themselves) who works for ...

In the early Sydney colony, newcomers commonly quizzed Indigenous locals about their memories of Captain Cook and the ... who relied on documentary sources should not attempt such jumps.

An analysis of textbooks used in Australian schools reveals how the myth that Captain Cook "discovered ... as historians” by examining primary sources (in this case old maps) and evaluating ...

Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson has reportedly been in talks over the creation of a new visitor experience to replace the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum. According to sources, Mr Gibson and ...

On Valentine’s Day, 1779, Captain James Cook invited Hawaii’s King Kalani‘ōpu‘u to visit his ship, the Resolution. Cook and the King were on friendly terms, but, on this particular day ...

UNTIL RECENTLY Captain James Cook was not a particularly controversial figure. But in January a statue of the 18th-century British explorer was toppled in Melbourne and the words “The colony ...

British explorer Captain Cook, who was in Newfoundland in 1766 witnessed the solar eclipse of Aug. 5 while conducting astronomical observations and called the place Eclipse Island. Sign up here.