He seemed to have conquered the world with his explorations of Eastern Canada, Antarctica, Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia, and the Sandwich Islands. Captain Cook, Public Arcives of Canada ...
Halcyon leucocephala, grey-headed kingfisher. Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to explore the southern seas, 1772-75. Captain James Cook's ...
close to a memorial to pioneering sailors Captain James Cook, Sir Francis Chichester and Sir Francis Drake. Shackleton, who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, had helped create a “n ...
The Service personnel who will take part in the British Services Antarctic ... the expedition, to practise exploration into unknown areas, and finally to commemorate the achievements of Captain ...
He attracted the notice of the Royal Geographical Society, which appointed him to command the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. The expedition - which included Ernest Shackleton ...
James Cook’s first voyage of exploration which saw him become ... Cook and his crew also faced huge challenges as a new exhibition at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, in Whitby, reveals.