Captain James Cook is the Christopher Columbus of Australasia. His voyages of discovery in the 18th Century opened the way for the colonization of the South Seas by Europeans. And now Cook’s ship, the ...

KEALAKEKUA BAY, HAWAII (HawaiiNewsNow) - The plaque marking the area where Captain James Cook met his end was installed once again Friday. The memorial has had some bad luck since its original ...

Researchers believe they have found the wreckage of the HMS Endeavour, vessel of legendary British explorer, James Cook. Cook commanded the ship from 1768 to 1771 on his famous voyage mapping the ...

On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline. It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook. It stands ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A pistol owned by British explorer Captain James Cook, who first claimed Australia for Britain nearly two and a half centuries ago, will go on the auction block next month in ...

Explorer Captain James Cook is remembered by many in his native Great Britain and around the world for his 18th century voyages to the South Pacific. But Cook’s influence is recalled in the Pacific ...

A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before Australia’s national ...