In August 1768, under the command of then-Lieutenant James Cook, HMS Endeavour and her crew set sail for Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus - before opening sealed orders for a secret assignment.

Swedish naturalist Daniel Solander published little in his lifetime. But through his botanic collections from his travels and a rigorous application of a revolutionary naming system, he laid important ...

E malosi le talitonuga o se 'au maulu mai Ausetalia nei ua latou mauaina le tino o le HMS Endeavour. O le va'a lenei na malaga mai ai le alii folau Peretania o Captain James Cook ma ia asia ai ...

Penguin was a small prefabricated armed sailing vessel which was carried to Port Egmont aboard the much larger and much more famous ship HMS Endeavour.

Two crew members of the original HMS Dreadnought, the UK’s first nuclear power submarine ... it marks nothing less than the ...

I have worked on many shipwreck investigations and have been involved in the discovery of a couple of shipwreck sites of this period. Here’s what’s usually involved in identifying a ship.

Wednesday marks 250 years since HMS Endeavour sailed into Botany Bay. A descendent of one of the Aboriginal men he first encountered there says the anniversary is an emotional one. "As we ...