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Mapping Australia's Coastline - Australia's Culture Portal

European mapping is based on Western concepts as they relate to geographical space. In 1810 Matthew Flinders completed the first chart of the Australian coastline including the separation of Tasmania by Bass Strait, naming the continent 'Australia'. Ind...

Australia's maritime history under sail - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia's maritime history is closely related to the global story of people crossing oceans. N B Stuckey, Thursday Island, Torres Strait Islands, 1945, Members of Torres Strait Island Light Infantry returning from fishing trip in outrigger sailing cano...

Crossing the Great Dividing Range—surveying an ancient land - Australia's Culture Portal

Ernest Revell, Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, c. In March 1812, the Colonial Surveyor George William Evans was sent to explore Jervis Bay, to determine a possible inland route back to Port Jackson. Other explorers, such as Hume and Hove...

European discovery and the colonisation of Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon. In 1770, Englishman Lieutenant James Cook charted the Australian east coast in his ship HM Barque Endeavour. Coo...

Early explorers - Australia's Culture Portal

J. C. Armytage, Return of Burke and Wills to Coopers Creek, engraving, in Australia by Edwin Carton Booth, opp. Explorers set out to discover rivers and land suitable for agriculture as well as to survey the land. A major expedition usually produced a p...

Indigenous peoples of the World - Australia's Culture Portal

UNESCO states that Indigenous populations number some 350 million individuals in more than 70 countries in the world, and that this represents more than 5000 languages and cultures. Today, many Indigenous peoples live on the fringes of society and are de...

Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Fire can often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ra...

The Overland Telegraph - Australia's Culture Portal

Jack Laver, Bob Carew up a pole of the Overland Telegraph Line, 1921. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: b2100793. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: B 6793....

Australian shipwrecks - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of State Library of Victoria. Some trading ships were going to the East Indies for spices and lost their way in high winds and seas - literally 'bumping' into Australia's west coast. The Limestone coast of South Australian and the south we...

Art of the land in Western Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Works by many contemporary visual artists in Western Australia demonstrate a vital consciousness of the land. Western Australian art traces a presence on the land, a cultural loss and, ultimately, a belief in the future. Contemporary artists such as pai...

David Mitchell, the Mitchell Library and Australiana - Australia's Culture Portal

In 1907 David Scott Mitchell (1836–1907), a wealthy and obsessive collector of books, made a gift to the people of Australia. David Scott Mitchell, donor of the Mitchell Collection. David Scott Mitchell's revolving bookcase, Bequest of David Scott ...

Papunya Tula art movement of the Western Desert - Australia's Culture Portal

The emergence of 'dot' paintings by Indigenous men from the western deserts of Central Australia in the early 1970s has been called the greatest art movement of the twentieth century. Papunya was described as a 'centralised government settlement establis...

Antarctica and Sir Douglas Mawson - Australia's Culture Portal

Mawson ice edge, &copy Australian Antarctic Division, 2006, Kingston Tasmania 7050. Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) was an Australian who led a series of expeditions to Antarctica. The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) 1911-14 was an important scie...

Urban renewal: the transformation of Australia's docklands - Australia's Culture Portal

Waterfront docks, wharves and quay areas played a significant role in Australia's history. Image courtesy of the State Library of New South Wales. Many customs houses and other maritime buildings are usually prime waterfront locations with architecturall...

Walks - Australia's Culture Portal

Heritage walks and tours in Melbourne offer a range of guided and self guided tours including the Golden Mile Heritage Trail, and the National Trust conducts walking tours of the city which 'take you down the hidden laneways and tell the stories of the in...

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Creative Digital Industries National Mapping Project   (more info)

The Creative Digital Industries National Mapping Project is a research project to develop and publish a range of accurate and timely measures of the Creative Digital Industries. It is being conducted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries

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MAPP AND LUCIA   (website Project Gutenberg Australia )

Title: Mapp And Lucia Author: E. F. Benson eBook No. A full six months after his death Lucia had been walking past it with Georgie Pillson, and had seen in the window a book she would have liked to purchase. It was highly attractive, and below it she rea...

MISS MAPP   (website Project Gutenberg Australia )

Title: Miss Mapp Author: E F Benson eBook No. Just below her house on the left stood Major Flint's residence, of Georgian red brick like her own, and opposite was that of Captain Puffin. Miss Mapp remembered her disappearance round the dentist's corner h...

4006 - #6 'Mapping the Past: An Atlas of Victorian Clans 1835-1904 - Part I' - Published Article - Parts I and II - Working Papers - Diane Elizabeth Barwick (1938-1986) Guide to Records   (website Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre )

Diane Barwick's article on the Kulin nation was entitled 'Mapping the Past: An Atlas of Victorian Clans 1835-1904' Part I, published in Aboriginal History 8(2):100-131. Series 4006 contains research notes and draft narratives in relation to both the publ...

gps artist - Iain Mott "sound mapping" | [filter] Australian electronic music, arts, media, project listings   (website [filter] )

Navigation of the musical composition will occur on two levels: a location dependant global level and a gesture and pseudo-location dependant local level. The music of Sound Mapping will be constructed using concrete and synthesised sounds under the conti...