On Dec. 29, 1777, Captain James Cook observed an annular solar eclipse. Captain Cook was a British explorer who sailed ...

KEALAKEKUA BAY, HAWAII (HawaiiNewsNow) - The plaque marking the area where Captain James Cook met his end was installed once again Friday. The memorial has had some bad luck since its original ...

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook; By Hampton Side; Doubleday; 432 pp., $35.00 Tales of Cook’s exploits have fallen out of favor.

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 days before Australia’s national ...

Swiss watch brand Rado is reintroducing a Captain Cook timepiece 240 years after the death of the famous British navigator, explorer and cartographer for whom the original was named. Rado’s new 37mm ...

Explorer Captain James Cook is remembered by many in his native Great Britain and around the world for his 18th century voyages to the South Pacific. But Cook’s influence is recalled in the Pacific ...

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 ...

Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years ago, triggering British colonisation of the region. We’re asking researchers to reflect on what happened and how it shapes us today. You can see ...