When the First Fleet arrived in Australia in 1788,
Australia’s First Nations people had already lived on
the continent for at least 60,000 years.
Matthew Flinders drew an accurate map of Australia’s
coastline, but none existed of inland Australia. Aboriginal
people knew their Country in detail without the need for
maps. They had a network of tracks across the continent and detailed knowledge of food and water sources. But for the European settlers Australia was a 7.7 million km2 mystery to solve.
This is how they set about Filling in the Map of Australia.
ISBN: 9781742036557
Extent: 48pp
Format: 297×210 mm Hardback
RRP: $24.99
Mapping the coastline was a task that took hundreds of years. See who got it right and who didn’t as, bit by bit, the outline of Australia appeared.
