The replica of Captain James Cook's ship, Endeavour, sails away from Sydney Harbour. (Pic credit: Richard Palfreyman / Perth 2011 via Getty Images) “He was shown to be an industrious ...

The RRS James Cook is a scientific vessel operated by the Natural Environment Research Council of the United Kingdom (NERC) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). More specifically, the ship's ...

The first prolonged visit was from the renowned English navigator James Cook, who anchored at Ship Cove (now Resolution Cove on Vancouver Island) for a month in 1778. In the 18th century there ...

Captain James Cook and his journeys will be the focal point ... and he was apprentice to Captain John Walker who ran collier ships up and down the North Sea coast between Whitby, Newcastle and ...

Halcyon leucocephala, grey-headed kingfisher. Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to explore the southern seas, 1772-75. Captain James Cook's ...

After a 20-year search for the final resting place of Captain James Cook’s famous ship HMB Endeavour, maritime archaeologists are finally closing in on its wreck in the US state of Rhode Island.