From Captain Cook to the First Fleet: how Botany Bay was chosen over Africa as a ... Cook’s chart of Botany Bay. ... A drawing by John Webber depicting the arrival of Cook’s ship in Nootka ...

The A$50m (£36.2m/US$68.9m) plans are for Botany Bay in Sydney, ... Captain Cook and his crew on the ship Endeavour landed in Australia for the first time on 29 April 1770, ...

A monument honouring Captain James Cook is to be part of a $50million revamp of Botany Bay - despite an existing statue of the explorer being targeted for vandalism by Aboriginal protestors.

Cambridge, England | A set of spears souvenired by Captain James Cook during his first encounter with Indigenous Australians in Sydney’s Botany Bay, almost exactly 254 years ago, has been handed ...

The weapons were given to Trinity College, Cambridge, soon after Cook returned to England on the HMS Endeavour in 1771. His landing on the shores of Kamay (Botany Bay) near Sydney in 1770 was ...

New Captain Cook monument plan for Botany Bay divides opinion. 29 April 2018. ... Captain Cook and his crew on the ship Endeavour landed in Australia for the first time on 29 April 1770, ...

The A$50m (£36.2m/US$68.9m) plans are for Botany Bay in Sydney, the spot where British explorer Captain James Cook first landed in 1770. Australia Treasurer Scott Morrison said it would be "a ...