When did the name ‘Australia’ first appear on a map? It may be much earlier than historians had previously believed. Phillip Clarke Matthew Flinders, who died just over 200 years ago, is widely ...

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Apart from Antarctica, Australia was the last continent to be comprehensively explored by Europeans, and South Australia’s coastline was the last part of the Australian map to be filled in. The SA ...

Bushwalkers and map sellers say the decision to stop printing and selling topographic maps for Australia will put people's safety at risk and impact on our understanding of remote Australia. The ...

The map – believed to have remained in a private Italian home since the 19th century – is the first to show Tasmania, and is expected to fetch over $400,000. INTERNATIONAL AUCTION HOUSE Sotheby’s has ...