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Discover the story of the vast, vibrant Australian continent in the Great Southern Land gallery at the National Museum of Australia. Explore stunning objects and rich multi-sensory experiences as you walk through majestic bunya pine sculptures and interact with our 3D animated platypus.
Terra Australis (Latin: ' Southern Land ') was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Its existence was not based on any survey or direct observation, but rather on the idea that continental land in the Northern Hemisphere should be balanced by land in the ...
COLLECTION SUMMARY Imagined by Europeans for centuries, the great southern land was home to First Nations people for millennia, their lives intimately connected to the land and waters. New arrivals from Europe described and categorized flora, fauna, and people, recording thousands of details.
Early maps of the world showed a single land mass at the bottom of the world to balance, as one would with a set of scales, the land masses of the northern hemisphere. Surrounded by an ocean barrier, the voyage from Europe to the world’s only island continent was long and often perilous.
Find out about adventures of famous explorers like Abel Tasman and James Cook, shipboard life, encounters with indigenous peoples, cultural insights, and descriptions of the strange new flora, fauna and topography of the Great South Land.
Great Southern Land. : Frank Welsh. Allen Lane, 2004 - History - 719 pages. Frank Welsh's new history of Australia is the first to be written by a non-Australian, and the first to be...
24 de nov. de 2005 · Here Frank Welsh traces Australia's intriguing and varied history to examine how this society emerged, from its ancient Aborigine tribes and earliest British convict settlements to today's modern...
