The Australian Government is planning a new monument to commemorate the April 29 anniversary of the day that British explorer Lieutenant James Cook made landfall on the continent for the first ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian local government has decided against repairing an often-vandalized monument to renowned British explorer James Cook because it would be destroyed again.

Holy ship. Capt. James Cook’s famous lost ship, the HMS Endeavour, has been rediscovered off Rhode Island, closing the book on a maritime mystery that has endured for 250 years.

Maritime experts have identified Captain James Cook's HMS Endeavour off Newport, Rhode Island, confirming site RI 2394 matches the legendary ship after decades of research.

For centuries, a ship that helped change history lay forgotten beneath the waters of Rhode Island. Now, the mystery surrounding James Cook’s famous vessel has finally been solved. After 250 ...

The controversial legacy of Captain James Cook 06:18. Researchers have confirmed that the 18th-century British explorer Captain James Cook 's lost ship found its final resting place in Rhode ...

Sides’ latest book, “The Wide Wide Sea,” depicts the fatal third voyage of 18th Century British naval captain James Cook. The book recently debuted at number 3 on the New York Times ...

In January 1779, when the British explorer James Cook sailed into a volcanic bay known by Hawaiians as “the Pathway of the Gods,” he beheld thousands of people seemingly waiting for him on shore.