Some of the maps that included these usages were on display earlier this year at the National Library of Australia’s Mapping Our World exhibition. The south end of the map ...

Cartographers in the 1600s had bold ideas of Australia, and some incredible methods of depicting those ideas in maps and globes.

A series of maps trace the unveiling of Australia, from the fantasies of second-century Egypt to Flinders’ last work. FROM ANCIENT imaginings of the medieval world – where Jerusalem lay at the centre ...