On Valentine’s Day, 1779, Captain James Cook invited Hawaii’s King Kalani‘ōpu‘u to visit his ship, the Resolution. Cook and the King were on friendly terms, but, on this particular day, Cook planned ...

Beneath the sprawling, gnarled branches of a kiawe tree in Hawaii's pristine Kealakekua Bay, an X lies carved into an otherwise unassuming rock face. But there's no buried treasure to be found here.

February 14 is celebrated by many around the world as Valentine’s Day. But in Hawaii, the date is known by a different name: “kill Captain Cook Day”. The episode begins in the Queensland town of 1770, ...