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 ...

Australian rock art, rich in symbolism and storytelling, isn’t just a beautiful glimpse into the indigenous culture of the past. It also serves as a prehistoric map, tracing the paths of ancient ...

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 ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A 16th century maritime map in a Los Angeles library vault proves that Portuguese adventurers, not British or Dutch, were the first Europeans to discover Australia, says a new book ...

In this case, the Australian Gazetteer – the authoritative list of 300,000-plus placenames, complete with coordinates – includes two Milduras. One is the “real” town, the other is an entry for ...