General | Al Jazeera
7 October 2019
The British government have expressed “regret” that explorers killed some of the first Māori they met 250 years ago but stopped short of issuing a full apology.
British High Commissioner Laura Clarke met Māori tribal…
Visual Arts | Guardian (The)
3 May 2018
Work by ill-fated illustrators aboard Captain James Cook’s first journey to the Pacific sit alongside revelatory images by a Polynesian high priest in a haunting exhibition on now at the British Library in London.
“The…
Z-Files | Australian Financial Review
30 April 2015
In an extract from a paper called, “Political Captain Cook” by Australian lawyer Margaret Cameron-Ash, Cook’s decision in 1770 to misrepresent Stuart Island as a peninsula is discussed.
“Like every military man, Cook knew that…