It's a tribute to the great circumnavigator Captain James ... map, creating detailed diagrams of the places he was the first European to discover, including New Zealand, Australia, the Cook ...

A few months ago, we showed you Colin Hazlehurst’s excellent tours of James Cook exploring New ... This time his presentation covers Cook’s exploration of Australia from April 18 – August ...

James Cook is one of the most prominent figures of the Age of Exploration. The captain explored ... The skilled cartographer also created accurate maps of the landmasses and recorded detailed ...

A talk in celebration of World Oceans Day will present a modern perspective of Captain James Cook. Hampton Sides, a historian ...

Captain James ... exploration, interest in the stars, interest in inventions, there was all kinds of work going on ...

formerly Captain James Cook’s Endeavour.” The group now plans a more detailed exploration of the site and “a more intense study of each vessel’s structure and its related artifacts.” ...

Glyn Williams investigates the standards he set in maritime exploration. The three major voyages of discovery of Captain James Cook provided ... coastline on the map. Cook sailed first to Tahiti ...

The English explorer James Cook, circa 1765.Credit ... Sides, the author of several books on war and exploration, makes a symbolic pageant of his own of Cook’s last voyage, finding in it ...

The story of Capt. James Cook’s third voyage has all the elements of a Greek tragedy — hubris, good intentions gone awry, fatal error. The English sea captain, an ...