When did the name ‘Australia’ first appear on a map? It may be much earlier than historians had previously believed. Phillip Clarke Matthew Flinders, who died just over 200 years ago, is widely ...

I want a handheld, rugged GPS unit for trekking. I'm looking hard at either a Magellan or a Garmin unit that you can upload maps into. Mostly this will be used in the UK and Europe, but I'm planning ...

When I moved to Australia from Canada as a child, I was struck by the shape of my new home. In Canada I had to draw maps of my native land in exacting detail. This skill atrophied at my Sydney primary ...