News
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.
Tag: explorers
History & Culture
A photographer’s dream: First Everest climb
A photographic legend, Alfred Gregory gave the world its first glimpse of the summit of Everest.
Destinations
200 years on: Crossing the Blue Mountains
May 2013 marks the bicentenary of the first European crossing of the Blue Mountains.
News
Shackleton expedition straying off course
Tim Jarvis and his crew don’t know that they are straying off course a week in to their replica Antarctic journey.
Adventure
Tracing Shackleton’s treacherous steps
An Aussie adventurer is about to recreate Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition.
News
Napoleon’s fascination with Australia revealed
Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor and European conqueror, had a fondness for Australia, a new exhibition reveals.
Science & Environment
Transit of Venus through history
Three hundred years of adventures and misadventures to see the Transit of Venus helped us measure the heavens.
News
Darwin boy’s find could rewrite history
A 500-year-old Portuguese gun has been found on an NT beach, and may suggest Europeans arrived earlier than thought.
History & Culture
Survival in Antarctica: longest solo feat
Part of Mawson’s 1911 Antarctica expedition, Moreton Moyes endured 10 weeks alone, the longest-ever solo stint.
History & Culture
Antarctica: mapping the last continent
A new exhibition of historic charts at the State Library of NSW revisits how explorers put Antarctica on the map.