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 ...

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 painstaking conservation project. And as Karen ...

Google Maps Reuters Australia map: Where is Uluru? Why can't tourists go up Ayers Rock anymore? "The climb is a men's sacred area, the men have closed it," chairman Sammy Wilson said. "It has cultural ...