An Australian local government has decided against repairing an often-vandalized monument to renowned British explorer James ...

Melbourne’s Yarra Council has been accused of caving to vandals after it voted to permanently remove a memorial of captain ...

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 ...

Of particular attraction are the stories of the Age of Sail, when large parts of the world were unknown and the best way to map them out ... Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.” ...

It had taken more than a year for the Discovery and the Chatham to make it here after departing from Falmouth, England, on a grand journey to map the ... member on Captain James Cook’s ill ...

However, this bay did not match the descriptions or maps representing Terra Australis ... navigator in Europe” by the House of Lords and became a captain in the Royal Navy. In 1776, James Cook ...

Sides’ latest book, “The Wide Wide Sea,” depicts the fatal third voyage of 18th Century British naval captain James Cook. The book ... the first reliable maps of the northwest coast of ...

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the ... ocean passage from Europe to Asia but instead, with the maps he created and his reports, Cook revealed the Pacific islands and ...

English explorer Captain James Cook (1728 – 1779 ... of New Zealand and added more than 5,000 miles of shoreline to the map of the Pacific. His next voyage met with similar success, earning ...

THE WIDE WIDE SEA: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James ... of Cook reckoning with the fallout of what he and others had wrought in expanding the map ...