Thus, when European explorers came to Alaska in the eighteenth ... made the first of his two voyages in the North Pacific Ocean, attempting to confirm the existence of the land to the east.

When European explorers first began sailing across the ... Then, in 1768, he took command of the first scientific expedition ...

Like some of the earliest European explorers in the Pacific, these writers doubted Polynesian seafaring capabilities and developed theories of Polynesian settlement that depended upon the vagaries ...

This discovery reinforces the hypothesis that connections between the Pacific islands and the ... peoples of the Americas centuries before European explorers arrived. The samples used in the ...

Cook, uniquely among European explorers, understood what Tupaia’s feats meant. The islanders scattered across the South Pacific were one people, who long ago, probably before Britain was Britain ...