Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.

In August 1768, under the command of then-Lieutenant James Cook, HMS Endeavour and her crew set sail for Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus - before opening sealed orders for a secret assignment.

The scientists took this sample of tropical banksia (Banksia dentata) from the Endeavour River in Australia. Influenced by Solander, Banks had planned to study with Linnaeus at Uppsala. But he ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Lieutenant James Cook and the crew of HMB Endeavour stepped ashore in Botany Bay in April 1770 – during their exploration of ...

The survival of a museum dedicated to British explorer James Cook is reliant on ... Indigenous activists say Cook and his crew on the HMS Endeavour committed atrocities including murder within ...

The new coin features the HMS Resolution, the ship that was captained by James Cook. The year 2020 marks the bicentenary of the reign of George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king. During his ...

Stowed away in the margins of Captain Cook's and Joseph Banks's diaries, the enigmatic Polynesian has no known portrait, but may have been one of the most influential figures aboard HMS Endeavour.