Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years ago ... lull in between Cook’s 1770 landings and the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. The main reason for this was Britain’s ...

Eighteen years before the arrival of the First Fleet, Captain James Cook had barely spent a week in Botany Bay. Portrait of Captain James Cook in 1782 by John Webber. Picture: National Portrait ...

This is because Cook’s expedition paved the way for the 1788 decision to send the First Fleet led by Captain Arthur Phillip to the new continent. In January 2024, a statue of Cook in Melbourne ...

A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship ... which marks the anniversary of the arrival of the British First Fleet in 1788. Every year on Jan. 26 ...

Some of the King’s subjects had stolen a small boat from Cook’s fleet, and the captain ... Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook” (Doubleday ...

It's the second time in 12 months that the Captain Cook statue in Randwick, Sydney, has been vandalised. Source: Supplied / Randwick City Council On 26 January 1788, the First Fleet set ashore in ...

Cook charted Australia's east coast in 1770, laying the groundwork for the later decision to send the First Fleet, which was led by Captain Arthur Phillip. Australia Day is a contentious holiday ...

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day, the second ...

The 1914 monument commemorates Cook's 1768-1771 voyage during which he charted the country's east coast and paved the way for a later decision to send the First Fleet led by Captain Arthur Phillip.

It is not the first time the Captain James Cook monument has been vandalised A century-old Captain James Cook statue has been cut down and a Queen Victoria monument covered in red paint in an ...