Detail from four Gweagal spears, collected at Gamay (Botany Bay), 1770, on loan from Gujaga Foundation. Picture: David James / Chau Chak Wing Museum Chau Chak Wing’s curator of Indigenous ...

Four Aboriginal spears that were brought to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago have been repatriated to Australia in a ceremony at Trinity College in Cambridge. The artefacts ...

The river was named after British Explorer James Cook after he landed in Botany Bay in 1770 and claimed possession for the UK of Australia's east coast. An Aboriginal partnership group is ...

We know the precise date that it came into Cook's hands, 29 April 1770. We have written accounts ... his first European on the shore at Botany Bay nearly two hundred and fifty years ago, this ...