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 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 ...

Stowed away in the margins of Captain ... When HMS Endeavour departed Tahiti on its secret mission to find and map Terra Australis, Tupaia and his young male servant Taiata joined Cook, the plan being ...

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

It has been 250 years since naturalist Joseph Banks sailed to the Pacific with James Cook aboard HMB Endeavour. During the voyage, Banks and his team made the first scientific collections of ...