Europeans were introduced to the Great Barrier Reef by British explorer Capt. James Cook, who came upon it ... what is now Queensland when the H.M.S. Endeavour became trapped in the labyrinth.

Seventeen Seventy was named after the year Capt James Cook arrived in Australia. The Coroners Court of Queensland said: "The deaths Mr Robin Reed and his son, Owen have been reported to the ...

Two British tourists have drowned off the coast of a popular tourist town at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef. A boy ... named for the year Captain James Cook arrived in Australia.

"Millions of corals in the north of the Great Barrier Reef died quickly from heat stress in March and since then, many more have died more slowly," Greg Torda, a research fellow at James Cook ...