The medal will form part of a Whitby exhibition marking 300 years since Captain Cook's birth.

On October 27, 1728, James Cook was born in a small town in northern England. Apprenticed to a shipowner, he eventually joined the Royal Navy, and is remembered today as Captain Cook. In a series of ...

Sharing meals at the station is a tradition for firefighters. These first responders spend long hours together in between rushing to emergencies, and in Louisiana, great food plays an important role ...

The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners. The monument ...

Captain Cook was William Bligh's mentor, role model, and cautionary tale all at once. This is the story of how Cook's three voyages, his violence, his diseases, and his death in Hawaii, shaped ...