English Captain James Cook landed at Possession Bay in South Georgia Island. While his vessel HMS Resolution sat at anchor in ...

On Gouldier Island, the huts at Port Lockroy were built in 1944 as part of a World War II mission. It continued to be used as ...

Sunniva Sorby, a member of the first group of women to ski to the South Pole, is now the “Godmother” of the HX Nansen, a ...

Memorial and honor books at the Patterson Library in Westfield for Aug. 1 to Dec. 31:Cupcakes everywhere One sweet tale of overcoming infertility by Erin Sarris was given by Nadine Stacy Chamber ...

Professor Hayden looked to capitalize on the current interest in the Yellowstone region by asking Congress for funds for an official expedition into the Yellowstone region. With influential ...

Image courtesy NOC Captain John Leask, onboard the RRS James Cook, says that while they are still supporting a science expedition, Christmas is will still be marked, with family and friends back ...

The new owners of an exact replica of HMS Endeavour plan to retrace Captain James Cook’s voyage with the ship… before turning it into a pub ...

It was a British ship that was best known for its first voyage (1769-71) with James Cook as captain. On that voyage, Cook brought Endeavour to Tahiti to watch the transit of Venus across the sun.

The tale of two groups of sailors stranded on an island south of New Zealand provides a case study of what to do — and not to ...

Play as top secret agents James Taylor and Gary Stewart and shoot through hordes ... with dozens of players to battle titanic ...

The first antarctic expedition falls into ... go quite as far south as Cook, but only reached 69 degrees 52 minutes. In 1823, an Englishman named James Weddell, forced two small sealing vessels ...