Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mai (left, painted by Joshua Reynolds) accompanied Cook (right, painted by Nathaniel Dance) on his final voyage - Alamy A few ...

Captain Cook set sail from Plymouth to find an elusive trade route linking Europe to Asia in 1776. He never saw England again.

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, ...

It is part of a total of 13 18th Century ships under water in Newport Harbour This is no treasure hunt for a casket of gold at the bottom of the ocean. Instead, it’s like looking for a needle in a ...

CAPTAIN COOK’S ship, HMS Endeavour, which the adventurer used to explore Australia, has been identified after a 250 year long mystery. The vessel was the first European ship to reach Eastern Australia ...

We wanted to understand First Nations stories of first contact with the British explorer rarely told in history books, and so we asked Last year, one question took us on a 4,500km journey along the ...

The vessel was the first European ship to reach Eastern Australia, in 1770, and went on to circumnavigate the main islands of New Zealand. It was then sold, renamed the Lord Sandwich and was last seen ...