After English Captain Cook was killed by Hawaiians at Kealakekua, Hawaii, on Feb. 14, 1779, Captain Clerke took command of ...

A Georges-Gope Fenepej wonder goal inspired New Caledonia to a 3-0 win over their Pacific rivals that moves them to within one match of a maiden FIFA World Cup appearance.

New Caledonia's 36-year-old striker Georges Gope-Fenepej scored twice in his team's 3-0 win over Tahiti in an Oceania ...

I traveled solo to the French Polynesian islands. By day I surfed, snorkeled, sailed and swam, stopping only to sleep in an ...

It was June 1968. Beverly was a 23-year-old Canadian university librarian on vacation in Mazatlan, Mexico, with a good friend ...

In 1980, Thompson became the first Hawaiian in six centuries to navigate to Tahiti without a compass or ... Similar trends have surfaced in the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Samoa and Tonga ...

The Cook Islands, a nation in the Pacific Ocean, hosted this year’s ecumenical World Day of Prayer on March 7, bringing together hundreds of people from the country’s six Christian churches.

Apprentice navigator and captain-in-training Kai Hoshijo ... led the first successful 2,500-mile voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti without Western or modern navigation instruments.

and Damien Cook appointed as co-captains. Gutherson has been a captain in the NRL since 2018 and appeared an obvious choice, while the former South Sydney hooker offers plenty of valuable ...

which he was instructed not to open until he landed in Tahiti, to go exploring around the land. Over the years, Captain Cook has drawn controversy from indigenous people of the lands he travelled ...