People walk near a traffic cone where a monument of British explorer Captain James Cook once stood before it was removed following continued vandalism at a park Melbourne, Australia (Rod McGuirk/AP) ...

An investigation is underway to determine the culprit behind an act of vandalism over the holiday weekend at the Captain Cook Monument on the shoreline of Kealakekua Bay. On Monday, the state ...

In the afternoon of Jan. 20, 1778, Capt. James Cook’s ships, the Resolution and Discovery, dropped anchors off the mouth of the Waimea River on Kaua‘i, and Cook, the British explorer and ...

In 1770, then-Lieutenant Cook charted the Australian east coast where Sydney would become the first British colony on the continent. The granite and bronze monument to the master navigator and ...

People walk near a traffic cone where a monument of British explorer Captain James Cook once stood before it was removed following continued vandalism at a park Melbourne, Australia (Rod McGuirk ...

Opponents of Australia Day celebrations denounce the public holiday as "Invasion Day". There are growing calls for the country to find a less divisive national day. The monument in Melbourne's ...