The medal will form part of a Whitby exhibition marking 300 years since Captain Cook's birth.
Captain Cook's enduring claim to fame is that he redrew the map of the world in three extraordinary voyages over the Pacific, north and south. The news that reached London in 1780 of his death on a ...
The bronze medal, issued to commemorate the death of explorer Captain James Cook, will go on display at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby ...