The first of Captain Cook's voyages to the Pacific (1768-1771) was momentous for not only would he chart the east coast of Australia, but also irrevocably change the course of history of this ...

George Stubbs, The Kongouro from New Holland (1772), in "The Art and Science of Exploration, 1768–80" at Queen's House, National Maritime Museum.

Despite my aversion to Cook and his statue, I admire his pluck in sailing more than 200,000 miles on three long voyages in small retrofitted coal carriers and surviving perilous conditions.

Through his voyages in the eighteenth century, Captain Cook’s work as an explorer contributed to startling advances in scientific knowledge, and mapped swathes of unplotted territory in both ...

View ANDERSON (GEORGE WILLIAM) New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority... [an] Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third ...

A look at the intrepid sailors of Whitby from Cook to Scoresby will feature in a forthcoming talk at Whitby’s Captain Cook Memorial Museum.

In recent years, the voyages of Captain James Cook have come under increasing attack as part of a larger reassessment of the legacy of empire. Cook was an explorer and a mapmaker, not a conqueror ...

This article is more than 6 years old. On this day 250 years ago, Captain James Cook was about to leave the island of Tahiti in search of a lost continent known as Terra Australis.

Larry Mantle talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz about his new book Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Henry Holt).

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 ...