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 ...

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 ...

Folded and forgotten for years, a fragile and flaky centuries-old chart considered the prototype for all future maps of Australia has returned to the land that it was based on. Stretching more than ...

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