Captain Cook statue disfigured and painted red in Sydney ahead of Australia Day - Police say they are investigating incident which saw statue’s hand and nose knocked off ...

Australia Day is known to some Indigenous Australians as Invasion Day, symbolising a key moment in the destruction of their cultures by European settlers.

While his vessel HMS Resolution sat at anchor in the bay, Cook went ashore, hoisted the British flag and ... and depicting the brilliant explorer and discoverer James Cook In effect this ...

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 ...

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been splashed with red paint and its hand removed days before Australians celebrate their controversial “Australia Day” on Sunday.

January 18: On his third and final voyage to the Pacific Ocean, British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit the Hawai'ian Islands. He is welcomed by the islanders ...

The survival of a museum dedicated to British explorer James Cook is reliant on a mystery benefactor. Middlesbrough Council had proposed shutting the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum earlier this ...

Captain Cook Square is being redeveloped into a leisure destination to attract new businesses. The attraction in the explorer's birthplace remains under threat amid local council money worries.

The closure of a hometown museum dedicated to British explorer James Cook would be a "tragedy", campaigners warn. Middlesbrough Council has proposed shutting the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum ...

The statue of a person some call an "explorer" and others call a "colonizer" has been vandalized in Australia. English naval ...

Vandals in Australia poured red paint over a statue of famed British explorer James Cook, officials said Friday ahead of large anti-colonial protests expected over the weekend.

Monday, January 17th was South Georgia Possession Day, marking 247 years since the first landing on the island was made by Captain James Cook. The British explorer was on his second world voyage ...