On Jan. 18, 1778, English explorer James Cook landed in the Hawaiian Islands. He named them the Sandwich Islands. In 1871 William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. In 1912 English e… ...

James Cook (1728-1779) was an explorer, navigator, cartographer and captain in the British Royal Navy. He was born in Marton, Yorkshire, and was the second of eigh children of a Scottish farm ...

The tale of James Cook sailing the Endeavour into Botany Bay is familiar to most Australians. But 250 years on, the descendants of the Aboriginal people who first spotted the English explorer's ...

On August 26, 1768, explorer James Cook set off from England on the HMS Endeavour for a voyage of discovery to the great Pacific Ocean and the fabled lands therein.

In “The Wide Wide Sea,” Hampton Sides offers a fuller picture of the British explorer’s final voyage to the Pacific islands. The English explorer James Cook, circa 1765. Stock Montage/Getty ...

The British Library Board created this short video about Capt. James Cook's voyages. Cook was the first English seafaring explorer to lead an expedition to the west coast of what is now British ...

The statue, which also bears inscriptions marking the great explorer’s birth and death, was unveiled in 1879, more than a century after Cook claimed Australian territory for the British Crown.

DESCRIBED as the superstar of his time, English explorer Captain James Cook will be played by Mosman actor Blake Erikson in a new production to be unveiled this weekend. Described as the superstar ...

THE consideration of Cook as the ‘physician’ rather than the astronomer, surveyor and explorer well deserves this pleasant story. It is the central theme, which the author is well qualified to ...

Cooks' Cottage, in Melbourne 's Fitzroy Garden, was originally constructed by the parents of British explorer Captain James Cook in Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, in 1755, and brought to Australia ...

English explorer captain James Cook aboard HMS Resolution named the Island 'Isle of Georgia' in honor of the then Monarch, King George III of Great Britain and Ireland.