After English Captain Cook was killed by Hawaiians at Kealakekua, Hawaii, on Feb. 14, 1779, Captain Clerke took command of Cook’s ships Resolution and Discovery and prepared to resume Cook’s third ...

New Caledonia's 36-year-old striker Georges Gope-Fenepej has scored twice in his team's 3-0 win over Tahiti in an Oceania qualifying semifinal which left it one step away from the 2026 World Cup.

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 ...

Hawaiʻi celebrated 50 years of Hōkūleʻa's history of voyaging on Saturday at Kualoa Regional Park on Oʻahu, where the ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Captain Cook statue and cottage in Fitzroy Gardens have been vandalised again, less than two weeks after the statue was ...

Source: AAP / Diego Fedele Vandals trying to decapitate a statue of Captain Cook after sprawling graffiti on a two-century-old historical cottage his father built were scared away before they ...

A statue of Captain Cook and his family's 18th century home have been vandalised in Fitzroy Gardens, in Melbourne's CBD. It follows a string of attacks targeting colonial figures, including a ...

Police say vandals who used an angle grinder in an attempt to cut the head off a statue of Captain Cook in Fitzroy Gardens will be treated “as criminals” instead of protesters. Three alleged ...

The paint has since been cleaned off the cottage. The statue of Captain Cook also stands in the gardens and was damaged in attempts to cut off its head. The vandalism comes just two weeks after ...

Police were alerted by security patrols on Tuesday morning that the Captain Cook statue, located near Cook's cottage in Fitzroy Gardens, had been damaged overnight. The cottage was defaced with ...