Captain James Cook: Life and legacy of Yorkshire naval officer
His name is synonymous with Whitby and he became a household name after embarking on voyages to New Zealand, Australia and ...
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Captain Cook statue disfigured and painted red in Sydney ahead of Australia Day
A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day, the second such incident in as many years. New South Wales Police said they were ...
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Statue to British hero defaced as protesters vandalise monument just days ahead of national holiday
A statue of British hero Captain James Cook has been vandalised just days before Australia Day celebrations kick off. The sandstone monument of the explorer and naval captain situated in Randwick ...
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Restless Genes
In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...