The fate of Captain James Cook’s iconic ship, the HMS Endeavour, which helped chart the Australian and New Zealand coastlines ...

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 ...

The captain, as one of his biographers has put ... As was customary on the island, Cook’s body was burned. Some of his singed bones were returned to the British; those that remained in Hawaii ...

Images posted on social media showed the body of the Cook statue lying on ... be ultimately borne by ratepayers,” she added. Captain Cook’s statue has been taken away and workers removed ...

I was conversing with the captain, and asked him whether he expected to find it in its recorded place. To this he replied: “It is sure to be there, for Capt. Cook determined its position ...

by editing a transcript of Captain Cook's journal of the voyage of the Endeavour, which was undertaken chiefly for the purpose of observing the transit of Venus across the sun's disk, and which ...

A medal from Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery is due to be auctioned and could fetch up to £3,000. The medal was commissioned by famous botanist Sir Joseph Banks and paid for by ...

A statue of Captain Cook and his family's 18th century home ... according to tourism body Visit Victoria. Police were alerted to the damage by security patrols. The City of Melbourne has confirmed ...