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“Australia on the Map” (AOTM) is the history and heritage division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society (AHS). This website consequently focusses on important themes in Australian hydrographic history and heritage. This includes maritime exploration and the mapping of Australia, and where relevant, New Zealand.
The Australia on the Map Division is the successor organisation to “Australia on the Map: 1606-2006”, which was established in 2002 as an independent organisation to organise, promote and coordinate a nationwide event program in 2006 as part of the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of European contact with this continent in 1606.
As an educational resource this website, which is compiled and maintained by volunteers, is constantly being upgraded and incorporating new features. It has some documents and databases relevant to the unveiling of Australia and New Zealand to the world , the charting of its coasts and their appearance on maps from the 17th to the 19th centuries. It also provides access to some of the research and writings of AOTM’s members and news on relevant events.
NOTE: The Australia on the Map Division is a purely voluntary organisation which does not employ any staff.
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Posted by admin in News on 02. Jun, 2011 | No Comments
Presented by Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society in association with the Embassy of France This year marks the bicentenary of the publication of the first map of Australia, compiled by French navigator and cartographer Louis de Freycinet. The map, published in Paris in 1811, showed the full outline of Australia [...]
Posted by admin in News on 17. Apr, 2011 | No Comments
This fantactic new map shows the routes that the historical mariners of Australia’s early maritime contact history took as they sailed through Bass Strait.
Posted by admin in Journeys on 24. Mar, 2011 | No Comments
Abel Janszoon Tasman
Posted by admin in History of Australia on 29. Sep, 2010 | Comments Off
THE COLONIAL ERA, includes the exploratory expeditions into the interior and the slow and often painful contact history on land. It starts with the arrival of the first fleet on the 26 January 1788, in Sydney, lead by Arthur Phillip, to establish a penal colony. This was the main reason for the initial British settlement. [...]
Posted by admin in History of Australia on 29. Sep, 2010 | Comments Off
THE AUSTRALIAN MARITIME CONTACT PERIOD is a most exciting but not well known period, starting in 1606, when the first European mariners sailed into Australian water, recording their observations of this land and the residents they encountered. Every Australian should know the name of Willem Janszoon and his ship Duyfken, the first recorded ship and [...]
Posted by admin in History of Australia on 29. Sep, 2010 | Comments Off
BEFORE ANY OF OUR HISTORY WAS WRITTEN DOWN the Original Australians lived here for more than 40.000 years. They may be the oldest continuous population in the world. Many hunted and gathered for their livelihood, some lived in semi-permanent villages. They arrived here from the North, group after group and occupied the continent. Occasionally they [...]
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