The Herald has prepared an interactive map that traces the 1769 route of his ship, the Endeavour, and outlines his encounters with Māori. To follow Cook's voyage, click on the map below and see ...

One was the British explorer Captain James Cook. The other was Tupaia ... Cook’s crew consulted a copy of the map on a later voyage, but islands did not appear where the map indicated they ...

On this day 250 years ago, Captain James Cook was about to leave ... “He comes across as very much a humanitarian.” Map showing the three voyages of Captain Cook, with the first version ...

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 ...

In recent years, the voyages of Captain James Cook have come under increasing attack ... Yet throughout history, exploration and the making of maps have usually served as the first phase of ...

Picture: Alexander Buchan Sketch of the portable observatory Cook set up on the shores in Tahiti to record the transit of Venus. Map of Botany Bay from voyages and surveys of Captain James Cook.

James Cook, who embarked on his historic Pacific voyage more than 200 years ago ... Cook was celebrated in his day for redrawing the world’s map, but the indigenous peoples affected by his ...

On August 26, 1768, explorer James Cook set off from England on the HMS Endeavour for a voyage of discovery to ... putting Botany Bay on the world map, reports News.com.au.

In the late 18th century, one of those mysterious regions was the northwest coast of North America — that is until Captain James Cook arrived and, quite literally, put it on the map. The British ...