Portrait of William Cox. Silentworld Foundation Collection SF001178.

On the road with William Cox

Becoming an Aussie builderWilliam Cox was a military officer, road builder, best remembered for his work on the construction of the first road over…


Map. Hand coloured copper engraving. Maris Pacifici. 345mm x 497mm. Antwerp, 1595. The first printed map to be devoted solely to the Pacific, and the first to name North and South America separately. It includes most of North and South America...

The fabled land of Beach, Locach, Java La Grande, and Terra Australis Incognita

How 40,000 years after the first Australians arrived, Australia was “discovered” againFrom Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD, geographers postulated that…