Researchers with the Australian National Maritime Museum have discovered Captain Cook’s famous lost ship Endeavour, closing the book on a maritime mystery that has endured for 250 years.

One was the British explorer Captain James Cook. The other was Tupaia ... the Sun serving them for a Compass by day, and the Moon and Stars by night,” he wrote. When Cook first met him, Tupaia ...

It is, after all, named by mistake. Captain James Cook, during his voyage up the east coast of Australia in 1770, passed by and witnessed his compass go crazy. Captain Cook believed the island’s ...

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 ...

Hampton Sides, the bestselling author of "Ghost Soldiers," "In the Kingdom of Ice" and "On Desperate Ground," returns with "The Wide Wide Sea" (Doubleday), the story of Captain James Cook ...