The controversial legacy of Captain James Cook 06:18. On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline.

Maritime experts believe they've finally pinpointed the exact resting place of Captain James Cook's legendary ship – just off the coast of a beloved New England resort town.A report about HMS ...

The location of the HMS Endeavour, a lost ship belonging to 18th-century British explorer Captain James Cook, has been confirmed as Rhode Island's Newport Harbor.

The remains of captain Cook’s ship, HMS Endeavour, has been located off the US coast after sinking 250 years ago. Between 1768 and 1771, the ship became the first European vessel to reach eastern ...

In the early Sydney colony, newcomers commonly quizzed Indigenous locals about their memories of Captain Cook and the Endeavour. They believed the arrival of a shipload of British men who stayed ...

At the very beginning of March it was announced that four Aboriginal fishing spears collected by Captain Cook on his visit to Botany Bay in 1770, donated to Trinity College at Cambridge in 1771 ...

In 1779, during his third voyage, Cook encountered the Hawaiian islands. But he was killed by villagers that year while attempting to kidnap the King of Hawaiʻi, Kalaniʻōpuʻu, for ransom. Lost ...

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 ...