Passengers simmered in Jacuzzis and feasted on gourmet cuisine this summer as the 850-foot cruise ship Crystal Serenity moved through the Northwest Passage. But in the summer of 1778, when Capt ...

How Capt. James Cook’s intricate 1778 records reveal global warming today in Arctic Originally published November 16, 2016 at 6:00 am Updated November 16, 2016 at 1:02 pm ...

James Cook visited Southcentral Alaska in 1778 as he sought the Northwest Passage. Cook’s vessel, the HMS Resolution, set anchor just off of what is now Fire Island, ...

Capt. James Cook's Arctic expedition vessels, the Resolution (foreground) and the Discovery, depicted on Aug. 18, 1778, off Icy Cape, Alaska, in an etching by John Webber, published in 1792.

Alaska's Secret Peninsula Paradise Beach Boasts Mountain Views And Pure Tranquility In Kenai. ... the famous sailor who explored the area that is now known as the Cook Inlet in 1778.

NOAA's vessel Fairweather has embarked on a 30-day survey to chart Alaska waters that have not been measured since the days of Captain James Cook in 1778.

For more than 200 years, he determined, the ice almost always reached the southern line where Cook found it in 1778. But starting in the 1990s, that dependable pattern melting and reforming ice ...

Air Force engineers and archaeologists in Alaska have discovered a food cache on the Upper Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage used 1,000 years ago to store salmon, moose, caribou, and berries.