A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day, the second such incident in as many years. New South Wales Police said they were ...

The closure of a hometown museum dedicated to British explorer James Cook would be a "tragedy", campaigners warn. Middlesbrough Council has proposed shutting the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum ...

James Cook in ... navigator James Cook, who anchored at Ship Cove (now Resolution Cove on Vancouver Island) for a month in 1778. In the 18th century there were few British heroes greater then ...

In the Channel 5 show James May’s Great Explorer the former Top Gear presenter will be investigating into the history of the Yorkshire sailor Captain James Cook who was active in the 1700s.

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery which would push the borders of the British Empire to the ends of the earth.

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has ... opening up the continent now known as Australia to colonisation by the British Crown. Nine years later, he was killed by ...

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 ...

SYDNEY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two ...

Downtown hotel featuring rich teak woods of a British sailing ship - 1 mile ... Named for legendary explorer Captain James Cook, who first docked in Anchorage in 1778, the hotel pays tribute ...

Police in Sydney are investigating after a statue of British explorer Captain James Cook was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before Australia's national day. Police said several items ...

A statue of James Cook, the captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, has been sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before the country’s national day.