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.

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day, the second such incident in as many years. New South Wales Police said they were ...

Captain James Cook and his journeys will be the focal ... skirmishes along the way with indigenous peoples in New Zealand, Australia and ultimately in Hawaii, they were small skirmishes which ...

The cottage was built in 1755 by James ... last month when a Captain Cook statue in Sydney was splattered with red paint, and its hand and nose were damaged just before Australia Day.

Police are investigating after vandals targeted the historical cottage built by Captain James ... before Australia Day last year. Debbie Gibson is a member of the international Captain Cook ...

James Cook in Canada: A People's History ... Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia, and the Sandwich Islands. Captain Cook, Public Arcives of Canada Towards the end of his journeys, just after ...

The cottage was built in 1755 by the parents of Captain James Cook, while the statue was unveiled in 1974 and later donated to Fitzroy Gardens. More to come.

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery which would push the borders of the British Empire to the ends of the earth.

Police are investigating an ­attempt to decapitate a Captain Cook statue in East Melbourne, saying those responsible will be treated as “criminals, not ­protesters”. Police said a security ...

Halcyon leucocephala, grey-headed kingfisher. Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to explore the southern seas, 1772-75. Captain James Cook's ...

Sky News host James Macpherson discusses how the Captain Cook statue in Melbourne has been attacked again. “A Captain Cook statue in Melbourne’s Fitzroy Gardens has been attacked just weeks ...