How Captain Cook went from being celebrated to slain in Hawaii

Captain Cook set sail from Plymouth to find an elusive trade route linking Europe to Asia in 1776. He never saw England again ...
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Australian locality removing often-vandalized monument to British explorer James Cook

MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian local government has decided against repairing an often-vandalized monument to renowned British explorer James Cook because it would be destroyed again. But the ...
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Australia removes monument to renowned British explorer James Cook

An often vandalised monument to renowned British explorer James Cook in Melbourne, Australia, will not be repaired due to the growing cost of doing so, however, authorities reject accusations that the ...

250 years since Captain Cook arrived in Australia, his legacy remains fraught

Wednesday marks 250 years since HMS Endeavour sailed into Botany Bay. A descendent of one of the Aboriginal men he first ...