A guide to early printed maps of Australia, Antarctica and the South Pacific.

"A Voyage to Terra Australis" was a sea voyage journal written by English mariner and explorer Matthew Flinders. It describes his circumnavigation of the Austra

First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited a

The definitive account of the birth of Australia

In October 1606, the great Spanish navigator Luis Vaes de Torres took two vessels through the waters that divide the land masses of New Guinea and Australia. In