Navigator and explorer James Cook was responsible for the discovery and mapping of many Pacific islands.

Dragons-bound hooker Damien Cook will captain a Prime Minister's XIII team bursting with young talent against Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby on Sunday.

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 last day of Ron Owen’s 44-year career began the same way as his first ... the Hotel Captain Cook. Hotel Captain Cook bellman Ron Owen passes a painting depicting Captain James Cook outside ...

But his return voyage had ... established their first permanent beachhead in the Americas, a hundred miles to the north on the James River, in what is now Virginia. Captain John Smith, the leader ...

Cambridge : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1955-1974 ...

He does that in an elegant way," Cook said of Root. England captain Ben Stokes, who is sitting out the first match of the ... with Stokes and bowling mentor James Anderson as he walked off the ...

Journal made during Captain Cook's second voyage, from Plymouth to Madeira, and then in search of the southern continent, to New Zealand, Tasmania and the Friendly Islands. Covers the period June 22, ...

Twenty years after the incident there are no plans by either the Canadian Government or navy to commemorate the courage of ...

Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied Captain Cook on HMS Endeavour’s voyage to the South ... Banks sent the first Kew collectors around the world, including Francis Masson, Allan Cunningham and James ...