In other words: All maps of Australia are five feet off at the moment. It's a problem that has created headaches for developers and scientists alike, with navigation systems telling drivers to go ...

Rare surviving 17th-Century wall map of Australia discovered in Italian home. A RARE map of Australia before its discovery by Captain Cook is reshaping what we know about our early discovery.

The 'habitability map' from 1946 gives the blunt label to huge tracts of land in central Australia, including the country's famous Red Centre known for its vast, empty ochre plains and deserts.

Maps from Australia’s early post-settlement history show land use, settlements and cultural groups that no longer exist. The 45 maps drawn by amateur ethnographer Daisy Bates in the early 20th century ...

Why is the National Library hiding away the first maps of Australia's coasts - made by the Portuguese? By Peter Trickett. January 18, 2014 — 3.00am. Save.

The map is the same map as a rare 17th-Century wall map of Australia that survived for more than 350 years in a private home in Italy. The map is believed to have remained since the late 19th-Century.

The world’s first map of Australia which pre-date Captain Cook's "discovery" of the continent by 200 years has been put on sale as part of one of the largest collections of such items ever compiled.

A rare map of Australia from the 17th century —before Europeans had fully explored the continent —resurfaced after 350 years. Now, it's finally been restored and put on public display in ...

Fires in Sydney, Australia. David Gray/Getty High temperatures and dry conditions over the last few months have driven the blazes, which have so far burned through more than 24,000 square miles of ...

National Library of Australia . 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 ...

Giant 150ft chalk map of Australia cut into a Wiltshire hillside by homesick WWI soldiers is painstakingly restored. Incredible badge was done by homesick soldiers from Australian Imperial Force ...