Looking at some of the early European cartographers' maps of the Australian continent, it's hard to not be amused by the inaccuracies. In one, we see Queensland conjoined with Papua New Guinea, while ...

A crumbling 17th century map of Australia—sketched more than 100 years before James Cook made his famed voyage to the continent—has been restored after a painstaking conservation project. And as Karen ...

Australian boomerangs come in a variety of shapes and sizes. The classic symmetrical boomerang is designed to return in a ...

Imogen Wegman received funding from an Australian Postgraduate Award to complete this research. On November 2, 1816, Charles Repeat, “a poor old man”, was driving his master’s cart along the short ...