In this edited selection of his journals, Matthew Flinders, Australia’s greatest navigator and the man who named our island continent, describes in captivatin

The definitive account of the birth of Australia

A guide to early printed maps of Australia, Antarctica and the South Pacific.

In October 1606, the great Spanish navigator Luis Vaes de Torres took two vessels through the waters that divide the land masses of New Guinea and Australia. In

Reproduction of the original: A Voyage To Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders