SYDNEY (Reuters) - A pistol owned by British explorer Captain James Cook, who first claimed Australia for Britain nearly two and a half centuries ago, will go on the auction block next month in ...
On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline. It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook. It stands ...
Written by Hampton Sides, "The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contract and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook," is a historic nonfiction book about the voyage and decisions ...
Researchers have confirmed that the 18th-century British explorer Captain James Cook's lost ship found its final resting place in Rhode Island's Newport Harbor, solving a decadeslong mystery, ...
Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...
On Valentine’s Day, 1779, Captain James Cook invited Hawaii’s King Kalani‘ōpu‘u to visit his ship, the Resolution. Cook and the King were on friendly terms, but, on this particular day, Cook planned ...
Charismatic Captain Jack Sparrow’s first love was the sea. The lovable anime rubberboy Monkey D Luffy set sail to find the ...
When HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure set sail from Plymouth, England, in 1772, the ships were stocked for a long and grueling journey into the unknown. Provisions included 60,000 tons of biscuit, ...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian local government has decided against repairing an often-vandalized monument to renowned British explorer James Cook because it would be destroyed again. But ...
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