WHEN Captain Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779 the ... the son of a Scottish agricultural labourer James and his wife Grace. The family later moved to a farm in Great Ayton, where Cook attended ...

A bronze statue of Captain James Cook has been returned to its spot in Fitzroy Gardens close to a year after it was toppled in an act of vandalism. The cost to repair the damage and return the ...

Bestseller Sides (On Desperate Ground) recreates in this propulsive account the final expedition of Captain James Cook (1728–1779), which culminated with his murder by native Hawaiians.

Middlesbrough Council say discussions are "ongoing" for the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum. The statue in Sydney has been splashed with red paint and had its nose and hand removed. The rare item ...

Based on Captain James Cook's three voyages. It was on his first voyage, in 1770 (while in the South Pacific region to observe the transit of Venus), that Captain Cook discovered the east coast of ...