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, ...

The History Channel's fascinating reality adventure, The Ship, is a three-part voyage from Cairns, Australia, to Bali, Indonesia, that sets sail tonight. When the trip ends Wednesday, its 21st-century ...

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 ...

“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.

When HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure set sail from Plymouth, England, in 1772, the ships were stocked for a long and grueling journey into the unknown. Provisions included 60,000 tons of biscuit, ...

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 - ...

“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 ...

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, ...

A few weeks ago, the library of Cambridge’s Trinity College (home of the recently defaced Lord Balfour portrait) exhibited four ­Australian fishing spears. They are all that remain from a collection ...

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 ...