sub_confirmation=1</a> The first map of Australia was charted by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman 130 years before Captain James Cook. It was thought to be lost for nearly 300 years! but after a long ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages ... In just over a decade he would add one third to the map of the known world.

David Hemblen plays Capt. James Cook in Canada: A People's History. By the nineteenth century, Europeans and Indians were into the third century of their uneven relationship but there had still ...

Halcyon leucocephala, grey-headed kingfisher. Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to explore the southern seas, 1772-75. Captain James Cook's ...

The museum sits close to where British explorer James Cook was born A museum dedicated to 18th Century British explorer Captain James Cook has reopened for the season, but future funding for the ...

James Cook, 29 April 1770 This is the moment, 250 years ago, that two worlds collided. In a hostile encounter, British explorer Captain James Cook stepped off HMS Endeavour and onto the ...

Middlesbrough Council say discussions are "ongoing" for the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum. The statue in Sydney has been splashed with red paint and had its nose and hand removed. The rare item ...

A museum dedicated to 18th Century British explorer Captain James Cook has reopened for the season, but future funding for the site remains uncertain. The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum in ...