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 ...

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 ...

The vandalism of a prominent Captain Cook statue in Sydney's eastern suburbs ... He made landfall at what he named Botany Bay on April 29, 1770. Randwick City Council includes part of the ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

His statue in Melbourne was covered in red paint but Captain James Cook has very little to do with us celebrating Australia Day on January 26. He landed in Botany Bay on April 28, 1770, and he didn’t ...

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 ...

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 ...