The fate of Captain James Cook’s iconic ship, the HMS Endeavour, which helped chart the Australian and New Zealand coastlines, has finally been resolved. After more than 250 years, scientists have ...

On Valentine’s Day, 1779, Captain James Cook invited Hawaii’s King Kalani‘ōpu‘u to visit his ship, the Resolution. Cook and the King were on friendly terms, but, on this particular day ...

Maritime archaeologists have announced the discovery of Captain James Cook's HMS Endeavour 250 years after the vessel sunk to the ocean floor. The Australian National Maritime Museum identified the ...

Captain James Cook's famous ship, the HM Bark Endeavour, was positively identified off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, closing a maritime mystery that had endured for 250 years. The Australian ...

A flotilla of ships including a replica of Captain James Cook's Endeavour has arrived in New Zealand, meeting both celebration and protest. The Tuia 250 Voyage marks 250 years of European arrival ...

At 2 p.m. on Saturday, 7th October, 1769, land was seen from the masthead of Endeavour bearing west by north; this was the North Island of New Zealand and James Cook gave the order to stand in for it.

Though controversy erupted when a shipwreck was declared to be the HMS Endeavour back in 2022, a new published report ...

New Zealand is set for a divisive weekend as commemorations begin to mark 250 years since the arrival of English explorer and naval officer Captain James Cook.

The first domestic chickens in New Zealand were likely set loose there by Captain James Cook and his crew on their second voyage to the islands, researchers say. Humans transported chickens to ...

Transcript. The explorer Captain James Cook is often celebrated as the man who discovered New Zealand. But many Maori people say it's time for that to change.

The controversial legacy of Captain James Cook 06:18. On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline.