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

The Australian city of Melbourne will not replace a damaged monument to British explorer James Cook, a local mayor has said, ...

In contrast, Cook’s and Banks’s journals document how the spears were taken in the aftermath of the 1770 confrontation at Botany Bay. Previously loaned to the National Museum of Australia and ...

Cook arrived in Sydney Cove in 1770 where he and his crew landed at Botany Bay, opening up the continent now known as Australia to colonisation by the British Crown. Nine years later, he was ...

Captain James Cook arrived in Botany Bay in 1770 while Captain Arthur Phillip arrived with the First Fleet in 1788, which is the official state date of Australia’s colonial period. A trailer for ...

The King has been urged to back the return of stolen Aboriginal artefacts from British museums. Charles will meet the leaders of indigenous groups during his historic trip to Australia. And they ...

The local Aboriginal people refer to Botany Bay as Gamay, and the first interaction between Europeans and Aboriginal people here was not positive. In April 1770, Captain Cook led a landing party ...

The Captain Cook memorial on the shore of Botany Bay marks where the English explorer landed in Australia on April 29, 1770 P Pulse News Agency International by AFP Follow On April 29, 1770 ...

LONDON — Four spears taken from Australia by a British explorer more than 250 years ... many years to see their ownership transferred to the traditional owners of Botany Bay,” Noeleen Timbery from the ...

The four artifacts are all that remain of some 40 spears taken by James Cook and botanist Joseph Banks in April 1770 ... people of Kamay, or Botany Bay, in Australia. The spears have been held ...

Cambridge, England | A set of spears souvenired by Captain James Cook during his first encounter with Indigenous Australians in Sydney’s Botany ... 1770, between the Indigenous peoples of ...

LONDON — Four spears taken from Australia by a British explorer more ... ownership transferred to the traditional owners of Botany Bay,” Noeleen Timbery from the La Perouse Local Aboriginal ...