We are in far Northwest Australia in Cooktown, founded by (you guessed it) James Cook. For those of us geographically impaired Americans that means we are far east and very far north, almost a ...

The first encounters between the native peoples of Canada and the Europeans took place on the East Coast, and it wasn't until many years later that natives on the West Coast began meeting the ...

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day, the second such incident in as many years. New South Wales Police said they were ...