It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook. It stands just ... put much of what we now know as the Pacific Ocean on the map, creating detailed diagrams of the places he was ...

Sailing the southern Pacific Ocean in 1769, two of history’s greatest navigators drafted a remarkable map. One was the British explorer Captain James Cook. The other was Tupaia, an aristocratic ...

On August 26, 1768, explorer James Cook set off from England on the HMS Endeavour for a voyage of discovery to the great Pacific Ocean ... Botany Bay on the world map, reports News.com.au.

readings of James Cook’s three maritime expeditions have zigzagged as wildly as the drunken-looking course of his vessels around the islands of the South Pacific. Did the self-made captain and ...

Experts said they identified what’s left of British explorer James Cook’s ship HMS Endeavour in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island. Cook sailed the ship around the South Pacific in a pioneering ...

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify ... passage from Europe to Asia but instead, with the maps he created and his reports, Cook revealed the Pacific ...

Adrienne Kaeppler and Robert Fleck's James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific examines the story both of the sailor's adventures and their effects on explorers and explored, finds Philip ...

James Cook. Cook commanded the ship from 1768 to 1771 on his famous voyage mapping the uncharted waters of the south Pacific Ocean, but for years its whereabouts have remained a mystery.

In “The Wide Wide Sea,” Hampton Sides offers a fuller picture of the British explorer’s final voyage to the Pacific islands. The English explorer James Cook ... the map of Europe’s ...

Experts said they identified what's left of British explorer James Cook’s ship HMS Endeavour in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island. Cook sailed the ship around the South Pacific in a pioneering voyage ...

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify ... passage from Europe to Asia but instead, with the maps he created and his reports, Cook revealed the Pacific ...