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Mapping Australia's Coastline - Australia's Culture Portal- Plate I. 'General chart of Terra Australis or Australia, showing the parts explored between 1798 and 1803. Image courtesy of The State Library of South Australia. Indigenous Australian concepts of the world were 'based on another view of creation and on...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mawson ice edge, © 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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
The current edition of the mapping specification for orienteering maps may be viewed or downloaded at IOF Mapping Standards >The mapping specifications provide a standard symbol set for use worldwide. In particular, for IOF events deviations from the spe...
Welcome to Mapping home page of the Orienteering Australia web site. This site provides resource information on mapping standards, preparing orienteering maps, printing guidelines, mapping contacts, references and web links. Contact Us> Copyright Orientee...
The current edition of the mapping specification for orienteering maps may be viewed or downloaded at IOF Mapping Standards >The mapping specifications provide a standard symbol set for use worldwide. In particular, for IOF events deviations from the spe...
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