The spears were presented in the Wren Library at Cambridge University The permanent return to La Perouse Aboriginal group was agreed last March The spears will now be displayed at a new visitor ...

Aboriginal spears taken on the day British explorer James Cook made first contact with Australia will soon be on their way home. The weapons were taken by the crew of HMB Endeavour on 28 April ...

James Cook and his crew found the spears in an empty camp on 29 April 1770 and took them aboard their ship Four spears taken from an Aboriginal community by James Cook and Joseph Banks during ...

A ceremony at a Cambridge University college will mark the permanent repatriation to Australia of four Aboriginal spears that were brought to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago.

One of the most famous paintings in the First Fleet collection depicts an encounter between British colonialists and Aboriginal Australians, when the British Governor was wounded with a spear. In the ...