explorers Archives

Rare documents reveal search for Australia

Two 17th century records show how a determined Spanish explorer could have been the first European to find Australia.

A photographic legend, Alfred Gregory gave the world its first glimpse of the summit of Everest.

May 2013 marks the bicentenary of the first European crossing of the Blue Mountains.

Tim Jarvis and his crew don’t know that they are straying off course a week in to their replica Antarctic journey.

An Aussie adventurer is about to recreate Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition.

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor and European conqueror, had a fondness for Australia, a new exhibition reveals.

Three hundred years of adventures and misadventures to see the Transit of Venus helped us measure the heavens.

A 500-year-old Portuguese gun has been found on an NT beach, and may suggest Europeans arrived earlier than thought.

Part of Mawson’s 1911 Antarctica expedition, Moreton Moyes endured 10 weeks alone, the longest-ever solo stint.

A new exhibition of historic charts at the State Library of NSW revisits how explorers put Antarctica on the map.