In the Channel 5 show James May’s Great Explorer the former Top Gear presenter will be investigating into the history of the Yorkshire sailor Captain James Cook who was active in the 1700s.

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New ...

But colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from ...

But colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from ...

Mount Taranaki joins Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island, and the Whanganui River in being recognised as people under New Zealand's laws.

A bronze statue of Captain James Cook has been returned to its spot in Fitzroy Gardens close to a year after it was toppled in an act of vandalism. The cost to repair the damage and return the ...