Monday, January 17th was South Georgia Possession Day, marking 247 years since the first landing on the island was made by Captain James Cook. The British explorer was on his second world voyage ...

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.

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...

A statue of James Cook, the captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, has been sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before the country’s national day.

Captain Cook Square is being redeveloped into a leisure destination to attract new businesses. The attraction in the explorer's birthplace remains under threat amid local council money worries.

SYDNEY — Vandals in Australia poured red paint over a statue of famed British explorer James Cook, officials said Friday ahead of large anti-colonial protests expected over the weekend.

Yet another statue of Captain James Cook has been destroyed after a spate of vandalism in the lead up to Australia Day. The bronze sculpture of the British explorer at the famous Cook's Cottage in ...

The closure of a hometown museum dedicated to British explorer James Cook would be a "tragedy", campaigners warn. Middlesbrough Council has proposed shutting the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum ...

SYDNEY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Police in Sydney are investigating after a statue of British explorer Captain James Cook was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before Australia's national day. Police said several items ...

A statue of Captain James ... Cook arrived in Sydney Cove in 1770 where he and his crew landed at Botany Bay, opening up the continent now known as Australia to colonisation by the British Crown.