Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.

The replica of Captain James Cook's ship, Endeavour, sails away from Sydney Harbour. (Pic credit: Richard Palfreyman / Perth 2011 via Getty Images) “He was shown to be an industrious ...

The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum faces closure ... He commanded a ship called the HMS Endeavour, which reportedly served as the inspiration for the starship Enterprise. Cook charted the eastern ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery which would push the borders of the British Empire to the ends of the earth.

Captain Cook embarked on his three voyages between ... “His first command [was given] in 1768 with Endeavour, the ship which he had selected as being a Yorkshire-built ship called a CAT, which ...

Stowed away in the margins of Captain Cook's and Joseph Banks's diaries, the enigmatic Polynesian has no known portrait, but may have been one of the most influential figures aboard HMS Endeavour.

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook ... and showed much he hadn’t. Cook had granted Tupaia a berth on the Endeavour in Tahiti. Soon after that, the Polynesian wowed ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Captain Cook statue and cottage in Fitzroy Gardens have been vandalised again, less than two weeks after the statue was ...

A statue of Captain Cook and his family's 18th century home have been vandalised in Fitzroy Gardens, in Melbourne's CBD. It follows a string of attacks targeting colonial figures, including a ...