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Though controversy erupted when a shipwreck was declared to be the HMS Endeavour back in 2022, a new published report ...
Sailing the southern Pacific Ocean in 1769, two of history’s greatest navigators drafted a remarkable map. One was the British explorer Captain James Cook.The other was Tupaia, an aristocratic ...
The controversial legacy of Captain James Cook 06:18. On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline.
Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. ... When his journals and maps reached England after his death, ...
The bestselling author of "Ghost Soldiers," "In the Kingdom of Ice" and "On Desperate Ground," returns with the story of Captain James Cook, and an account of his final, fatal voyage of exploration.
THE WIDE WIDE SEA: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.By Hampton Sides. Doubleday. 432 pages. $35.
Capt. James Cook’s famous lost ship, the HMS Endeavour, has been rediscovered off Rhode Island, closing the book on a maritime mystery that has endured for 250 years.
For centuries, a ship that helped change history lay forgotten beneath the waters of Rhode Island. Now, the mystery surrounding James Cook’s famous vessel has finally been solved. After 250 ...
Maritime experts have identified Captain James Cook's HMS Endeavour off Newport, Rhode Island, confirming site RI 2394 matches the legendary ship after decades of research.
Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. He set out to find a westward ocean passage from Europe to Asia but instead ...