CAPTAIN WHARTON has rendered excellent service to naval and colonial history, and to geographical science, by editing a transcript of Captain Cook's journal of the voyage of the Endeavour, which was ...

SYDNEY—Historians have long puzzled over the whereabouts of a ship sailed by an explorer who is credited with mapping Australia’s east coast and claiming the territory for Britain. An Australian ...

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Long after carrying Capt. James Cook to the far side of the world, the naval vessel HM Bark Endeavour continues to inspire adulation, most of all in Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. In 1768, ...

The HMS Endeavour is a copy of Captain Cook's famous ship The replica of Captain Cook's Endeavour sails into Cumbria for what will be her last port of call before returning to Australia for good. The ...

Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour , commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, ...