Ski Resorts in Australia: The Best Coastal Towns and Cities in Australia: Gold Coast Brief History of Australia Australia's history reflects a mixture of indigenous cultures and European colonization. Australia's indigenous people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, inhabited the ...
Micronesia, and Polynesia. It is generally considered to encompass the area south of the equator and east of Australia and Papua New Guinea. The region includes thousands of islands, many of which are home to indigenous communities with their own distinct traditions and languages. ...
Australia Maps Collection: Navigating the Land of Kangaroos and Koalas Where is located Australia on the Map What are some facts about Australia Area:7,692,024 km2 (2,969,907 sq mi) Population:26,036,200 (2023) Population Density:3.4/km2 (8.8/sq mi) ...
On top of this, the beautiful beaches and turquoise waters that line its shores are home to the jaw-dropping Great Barrier Reef; one of the miracles of the natural world and one of Australia’s most popular tourist destinations. With loads of great things to see and do, you’ll have you...
Anything mashing up maps and typewriters is guaranteed to get my attention (I have 37 of the latter and rather a lot more of the former). So I have no choice but to share R. J. Andrews’s “Typewriter,” an elevation map of California created on a manual typewriter. ...
The loss of Britain’s 13 American colonies in 1776–83 was compensated by new settlements inAustraliafrom 1788 and by the spectacular growth ofUpper Canada(nowOntario) after the emigration of loyalists from what had become the United States. TheNapoleonic Warsprovided further additions to the empi...
(4.6 billion to 541 million years ago) and the beginning of theCambrian Period(541 million to 485 million years ago); their source area was probably the continental forelands ofAustraliaand Antarctica, then part of a nearby single supercontinent.Continental drift(the movement of large plates of ...
Africa,Australia,Antarctica, thePacific, theArctic,and theWorld.The online map collection is a searchable database that allows you to make your own journeys into spatial representations of the past. Here you can see the history of cartography through primary sources from 1500 into the 21st century...
'The Roadmap to Close the Gap for Vision' project has been conducted by the Indigenous Eye Health Unit at The University of Melbourne. The aim is to 'Close the Gap for Vision' by eliminating the known differences in the standard of eye health in Indigenous Australians compared to mainstream...
Addition of Māori names in New Zealand and restored indigenous names in Australia, the most notable being the renaming of Fraser Island in Queensland to its Butchulla name K’gari Administrative boundary updates in Ethiopia, Mali and Kazakhstan ...