Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay is slowly disappearing as sea rises and erosion hits the shoreline. The population has ...

Cook sailed into Botany Bay in 1770 and claimed eastern Australia for Britain under the doctrine of "terra nullius" -- land belonging to no one -- brushing over tens of thousands of years of ...

Captain James Cook arrived in Botany Bay in 1770 while Captain Arthur Phillip arrived with the First Fleet in 1788, which is the official state date of Australia’s colonial period.

Captain Cook settled on the English name Botany Bay due to the enormous quantity of new plants collected by Endeavour botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander.

Followed categories will be added to My News. The nation’s pub market is getting back on track with the Captain Cook Hotel in Botany, in Sydney’s south, changing hands for about $35m.

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 ...