In just his first voyage with Endeavor, he charted the coastline of eastern Australia, and circumnavigated both New Zealand ...

CAPTAIN COOK, Hawaii (Island News) -- Hawaii Police arrested and charged a wanted fugitive with more than a dozen offenses, following a crime spree that resulted in an officer-involved shooting in ...

St. Elias Stable's Captain Cook breezed a half-mile in :49 March 26 over the Belmont Park dirt training track as he prepares for the $750,000 Wood Memorial Stakes (G2), a 1 1/8-mile test for ...

This supposed lecture titled "Highlights of Hawaiian History" discusses key events in Hawaii's past, including Captain James Cook's discovery of the islands in 1778 and the arrival of missionaries ...

upon entering a ship,” wrote Captain James Cook upon first landing in what he called the Sandwich Islands—today known as Hawaii. “Their eyes were continually flying from object to object ...

Captain Cook was sixth at Churchill Downs in his first start for owner/breeder Marylou Whitney Stables, but his debut for Dutrow was a 9 1/4-length score in a Dec. 28 maiden race over a sloppy Big ...

WHEN Captain Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779 the nation mourned ... be no funeral for Elizabeth to attend in England and no grave for her to visit to pay her respects. Of their 17-year marriage ...

This weekend, in a tiny village near London, Captain George Vancouver will be commemorated as he is every year at the centuries-old churchyard where he was buried more than 225 years ago.

An excellent new book draws on Cook’s letters and notebooks to tell the story of his third and final trip. Cook was almost 50 when he set off on HMS Resolution in July 1776.Among the crew he ...

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.

On Valentine’s Day, 1779, Captain James Cook invited Hawaii’s King Kalani‘ōpu‘u to visit his ship, the Resolution. Cook and the King were on friendly terms, but, on this particular day ...