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 archaeologists have announced the discovery of Captain James Cook's HMS Endeavour 250 years after the vessel sunk to the ocean floor. The Australian National Maritime Museum identified the ...

The bestselling author of "Ghost Soldiers," "In the Kingdom of Ice" and "On Desperate Ground," returns with the story of Captain James Cook, and an account of his final, fatal voyage of exploration.

Sailing the southern Pacific Ocean in 1769, two of history’s greatest navigators drafted a remarkable map. One was the British explorer Captain James Cook.The other was Tupaia, an aristocratic ...

Though controversy erupted when a shipwreck was declared to be the HMS Endeavour back in 2022, a new published report ...

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. He set out to find a westward ocean passage from Europe to Asia but instead ...

It's about an 18th-century sea voyage around the world, led by Captain James Cook, an explorer so accomplished that in the 1770s his was a household name in England.

This tale of adventure, discovery and tragedy on the high seas involves Captain James Cook’s third voyage to circumnavigate the globe and map the terra incognita of the Pacific coast of North ...

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 ...

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. In recent decades, Cook has been vilified by some scholars and cultural ...