The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners. The monument ...
Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy. Glyn Williams investigates the standards he set in maritime exploration. The three major voyages of ...
On October 27, 1728, James Cook was born in a small town in northern England. Apprenticed to a shipowner, he eventually joined the Royal Navy, and is remembered today as Captain Cook. In a series of ...
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On this day 250 years ago, Captain James Cook was about to leave the island of Tahiti in search of a lost continent known as Terra Australis. Cook had been sent to the region by the British admiralty, ...
The wreck of Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour may have finally been pinpointed, 17,000 kilometers (10,500 miles) from the country with which it’s most famously associated. Researchers in Rhode Island, on ...
Tracy Ireland receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Captain Cook has loomed large in the federal government’s 2018 budget. The government allocated $48.7 million over four years to ...