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The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners. The monument ...

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook; By Hampton Side; Doubleday; 432 pp., $35.00 Tales of Cook’s exploits have fallen out of favor.

Researchers believe they have found the wreckage of the HMS Endeavour, vessel of legendary British explorer, James Cook. Cook commanded the ship from 1768 to 1771 on his famous voyage mapping the ...

On October 27, 1728, James Cook was born in a small town in northern England. Apprenticed to a shipowner, he eventually joined the Royal Navy, and is remembered today as Captain Cook. In a series of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline. It's ...

This is no treasure hunt for a casket of gold at the bottom of the ocean. Instead, it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack, with this search potentially for no more than a few partly rotten ...

On this day 250 years ago, Captain James Cook was about to leave the island of Tahiti in search of a lost continent known as Terra Australis. Cook had been sent to the region by the British admiralty, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have confirmed that the 18th-century British explorer Captain James Cook's lost ship found its final resting place in ...

A globe lights up both Capt. James Cook’s routes and the presumed Northwest Passage he was looking. Captain Cook’s portrait is in the background. The explorer’s time in the Northwest is now chronicled ...