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.

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 ...

The first prolonged visit was from the renowned English navigator James Cook, who anchored at ... and the Sandwich Islands. Captain Cook, Public Arcives of Canada Towards the end of his journeys ...

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.

January 18: On his third and final voyage to the Pacific Ocean, British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit the Hawai'ian Islands. He is welcomed by the islanders ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final ... his second Pacific voyage, Mai requested passage, becoming the first Polynesian to ...

The A$50m (£36.2m/US$68.9m) plans are for Botany Bay in Sydney, the spot where British explorer Captain James Cook first landed in 1770. Australia Treasurer Scott Morrison said it would be "a ...

Concrete evidence of James Fitzjames as the first identified victim of cannibalism lifts the veil of anonymity that for 170 ...

A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the ...

The statue of Captain James Cook was found covered ... the day in 1788 when Britain's First Fleet landed in Sydney Cove. Captain Cook had made it to Australia's east coast in 1770.

It was first documented by European explorers during Captain James Cook’s first voyage on the HMS Endeavour around 1770. Tragically, surfing was nearly eradicated by European missionaries ...