If you were to pull this average Australian away from the barbecue for just one moment and ask why we celebrate on the 26th, you’d likely get a vague answer that mentions Captain Cook ...

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has ... Cook arrived in Sydney Cove in 1770 where he and his crew landed at Botany Bay, opening up the continent now known as Australia ...

The Royal Navy's Captain Arthur Phillip had been ... with ships arriving between January 18 and 20 at Botany Bay, south of Port Jackson, where James Cook had dropped anchor 18 years earlier.

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

The National Gallery has been accruing moral credits, at least within a certain cultural clique, from endless exhibitions ...

As we all know, Great Britain took dibs on the great stonking land mass that is Australia when James Cook arrived at Botany Bay, bunged a ... they decided to show up. Captain Cook, whose ...

On Friday, Randwick in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs was the scene of the annual vandalism of a statue of Captain James Cook, who didn’t colonise Australia, but whose expedition led to the ...

Unfortunately, it was soon realised that the bay was not as favourable as they had hoped. The previous accounts by the navigator Captain James Cook had somewhat misled the crew into believing this ...

Frome Family History Group Our recent meeting began with our annual business meeting, the first at the Cheese and Grain.

When Captain James Cook sailed in through the heads of Kamay Botany Bay in 1770, he described gunyas dotted along the foreshore in his search for water: Saw as we came in on both points of the bay ...