After more than 50 years, the unique Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef continues to evolve with new rooms and delicious ...

sub_confirmation=1</a> The first map of Australia was charted by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman 130 years before Captain James Cook. It was thought to be lost for nearly 300 years! but after a long ...

James Cook is considered one of the greatest navigators and explorers of all time. A British naval captain, navigator, and ...

Opponents of Australia Day celebrations denounce the ... Jolly said a local branch of the Captain Cook Society, an international group that celebrates the explorer, has offered to preserve the ...

A person jogs near a traffic cone where a monument of British explorer Captain James Cook once stood in Melbourne, Australia (Rod McGuirk/AP) In 1770, then-Lieutenant Cook charted the Australian east ...

Repeated vandalism of a Captain Cook memorial has prompted a local council to scrap the granite monument as repair costs escalate.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian local government has decided against repairing an often-vandalized monument to ...