On this day 250 years ago, Captain James Cook was about to leave the island of Tahiti in search of a lost continent known as Terra Australis. Cook had been sent to the region by the British admiralty, ...

“BETTER late than never” may be said of the book the title of which is given above. It is a curious fact that the scientific results of several of the most important and most costly voyages of ...

"A lot of things started going wrong from the very beginning," historian Hampton Sides says of Cook's last voyage, which ended in the British explorer's violent death on the island of Hawaii in 1779.

Neil deGrasse Tyson explores Captain Cook’s voyages, connecting 18th-century exploration with cosmic discoveries, showing how ...

Dr Frances McIntosh, of English Heritage, with items from the 18th-century shell collection - Phil Wilkinson/English Heritage/PA Shells collected by Captain Cook’s crew were “miraculously” saved from ...

On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline. It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook. It stands ...

Larry Mantle talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz about his new book Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Henry Holt). Horwitz details the ...

“The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook” by Hampton Sides, Doubleday, 432 pages, $35. Hampton Sides is one of America’s foremost ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Hawaii entertainment world is circling their arms around the families of Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner Sean Na’auao and Kumu Hula Kaui Dalire this morning. Their son - ...

Stephen Morey is a chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council funded grant for the project 'Howitt & Fison’s anthropology: using new methods to reveal hidden riches.(LP160100192) By now, ...

We take a deep dive into Cook's life and legacy with Cliff Thornton, who is a member of the Captain Cook Society. 250 Years Ago, Captain Cook Embarked On First Of Three Voyages On this day 250 years ...