Chief of War draws a subtle reference to Captain Cook, raising many questions about the real figure's history and his ...

The object is a wooden seal decoy helmet made at least 250 years ago by the indigenous people of Alaska from whom it was collected on his last voyage by Captain James Cook. Wooden seal decoy ...

The controversial legacy of Captain James Cook On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline. It's a tribute to the ...

In the late 1700s, a woman collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world. The collection was believed to be lost for decades, until they were saved from the garbage in the 1980s.