WELCOME TO TURANGANUI-A-KIWA: Actor Kirk Torrance plays Raiatean arioi and navigator Tupaia, who joined Lieutenant James Cook's expedition from Tahiti to New Zealand, in an updated cut of Lala Rolls' ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years ago, triggering British colonisation of the region. We're asking researchers to reflect on what happened and how it ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. Several recent exhibitions on James Cook have sought to include discussions of the ...

It was March 1774 and Captain James Cook was on the second of his three Pacific voyages, sailing the Resolution rather than the Endeavour. Going north from the edge of Antarctica, he reached Rapa Nui.

Several recent exhibitions on James Cook have sought to include discussions of the Indigenous people who journeyed with him on his Pacific voyages. In exhibitions marking the 250th anniversary, in ...

Although Captain Cook's mission to New Zealand and Australia didn't involve colonisation, the legacy of his voyage aboard the Endeavour, and of what came after, has been far-reaching. Merata Kawharu ...

Lala Rolls’ fascinating quest to examine what happens to a Tahitian high priest and navigator when he travels across the pacific – and further on towards England as a translator and guest (or is it as ...

Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum is marking 250 years since the first onshore meetings between Māori and Europeans during HMB Endeavour's 1769 voyage to Aotearoa New Zealand, with a new ...

On August 26, history buffs around the world will mark the 250th anniversary of HM Bark Endeavour leaving England under Lieutenant James Cook on one of the most important voyages of discovery ever ...

VOYAGERS: British explorer James Cook, Raiatea chief and arioi Tupaia, and a Maori warrior feature in this graphic by Mat Tait and will be part of the pop-up exhibition Tupaia, Ata Hira: Museum on the ...

Marahau artist Mat Tait was named the winner of the Russell Clark Award for Illustration at the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults for his work on The Adventures of Tupaia.