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.

A statue of British hero Captain James Cook has been vandalised just days before Australia Day celebrations kick off. The ...

City of Yarra will not reinstate the Captain Cook monument in Fitzroy North’s Edinburgh Gardens because it says repeated vandal attacks have made it too costly to repair. Instead the plaque ...