It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook. It stands just feet from where he died. Akoni Palacat-Nelsen is a native Hawaiian (or kanaka, as they call themselves) who works for ...

A new documentary featuring Stan Grant aims ... have debated whether they got here 50,000 or 65,000 years ago. Captain James Cook made landfall in Botany Bay in 1770 before Captain Arthur ...

Based on Captain James Cook's three voyages. It was on his first voyage, in 1770 (while in the South Pacific region to observe the transit of Venus), that Captain Cook discovered the east coast of ...

THE WIDE WIDE SEA: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, by Hampton Sides In January 1779, when the British explorer James Cook sailed into a ...

On Valentine’s Day, 1779, Captain James Cook invited Hawaii’s King Kalani‘ōpu‘u to visit his ship, the Resolution. Cook and the King were on friendly terms, but, on this particular day ...

Should they encounter the British captain James Cook, Franklin wrote, not only were they to leave him unmolested, but they should also “treat the said Captain Cook and his people with all ...