Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.

In August 1768, under the command of then-Lieutenant James Cook ... to the South Seas in His Majesty's Ship the Endeavour [1768-1871] … by Sydney Parkinson (1773) Source: The Natural History Museum, ...

In a hostile encounter, British explorer Captain James Cook stepped off HMS Endeavour and onto the shores of what is now known as Botany Bay in South Sydney. There, he tried to communicate with ...

Captain James Cook and his journeys ... “[Captain Cook] moved to Whitby and he was apprentice to Captain John Walker who ran ...