New Zealand’s cultural life is troubled by the ghosts of empire, figures and events that persist or return to haunt the present. Sometimes it seems these ghosts have been placated and are fading from ...

In the light of a new book which traces changing attitudes towards James Cook, five authors were asked, 'What do you think of when you think of Cook?' ...

Beneath the sprawling, gnarled branches of a kiawe tree in Hawaii's pristine Kealakekua Bay, an X lies carved into an otherwise unassuming rock face. But there's no buried treasure to be found here.

Captain Cook has become a divisive figure in Australia and this map highlights why there’s so much confusion about him. For years there have been growing calls for statues of Captain James Cook to be ...

Amid nationwide calls to reexamine America’s history of racism, activists say that a statue of the Captain Cook is a place for Anchorage to start its own conversation. The statue stands overlooking ...

With the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's voyage to Australia, it is time to brush up on the history of our nation's most famous naval explorer. Many European voyages had previously visited ...

A picture titled ‘Captain Cook taking possession of the Australian continent on behalf of the British crown, AD 1770’. Drawn and engraved by Samuel Calvert from an historical painting by Gilfillan in ...

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