The Australian National Maritime Museum has released its final report confirming that the shipwreck site RI 2394 in Newport ...

The City of Yarra in Melbourne has delivered a chilling message to activists everywhere: if you shout loudly enough, ...

It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook. It stands just feet ... including New Zealand, Australia, the Cook Islands (which still bear his name), and the islands of Hawaii.

Australia Day, celebrated on 26 January ... “Randwick City Council condemns this act of vandalism of the heritage Captain Cook statue,” he said. “Vandalism has no place in public discussion.

A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before Australia’s ...

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been splashed with red paint and its hand removed days before Australians celebrate their controversial “Australia Day” on Sunday.

sub_confirmation=1</a> The first map of Australia was charted by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman 130 years before Captain James Cook. It was thought to be lost for nearly 300 years! but after a long ...

On Valentine’s Day, 1779, Captain James Cook invited Hawaii’s King ... After mapping both New Zealand’s North and South Islands, Cook headed to Australia, then known as New Holland.

Australian police are investigating after a statue of Captain James Cook was covered in red paint and disfigured, ahead of the Australia Day weekend. It is the second time in 12 months that the ...