SYDNEY >> 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 ...

Australia’s bushfire summer and the coronavirus pandemic have put paid to many events planned to celebrate 250 years since Captain James Cook’s arrival, but others are going online. Captain James Cook ...

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 days ...

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 ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Australian maritime experts said Thursday that they believe they’ve found the wreck of one of the most important ships in the history of the South Pacific, which sank off the East ...

Australian maritime experts said Thursday they believed they've found the wreck of one of the most important ships in the history of the South Pacific after it was scuttled in the U.S. more than 200 ...

SYDNEY—Historians have long puzzled over the whereabouts of a ship sailed by an explorer who is credited with mapping Australia’s east coast and claiming the territory for Britain. An Australian ...