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 ...

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 ...

Researchers believe they have found the wreckage of the HMS Endeavour, vessel of legendary British explorer, James Cook. Cook commanded the ship from 1768 to 1771 on his famous voyage mapping the ...

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 ...

Plans to close the main museum dedicated to famed explorer Captain Cook are being opposed by locals. Middlesbrough Council is considering closing the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum - which stands near ...

A globe lights up both Capt. James Cook’s routes and the presumed Northwest Passage he was looking. Captain Cook’s portrait is in the background. The explorer’s time in the Northwest is now chronicled ...

A mayor has called for a recently vandalised statue of Captain Cook to be taken down because it is a symbol 'of colonial oppression'. Local police are investigating after the 114-year-old statue in ...

This is no treasure hunt for a casket of gold at the bottom of the ocean. Instead, it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack, with this search potentially for no more than a few partly rotten ...

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