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 ...

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 ...

The next time you're driving down a country road in outback Australia, consider there's a good chance that very route was originally mapped out by Aboriginal people perhaps thousands of years before ...