Our Fleeting Past

Collie travels back in time - an online learning adventure from the Country Areas Program website loaded with information, links and a web challenge about European discovery and charting of Australia's coastline

Australia on the map 1606 to 2006 - has a table and maps containing information about the sequence of chartings of the Australian coast by European navigators

Australia had to be there - a simple explanation of why Australia was known about even before it was discovered

Wikipedia - information and maps

Encyclopedia Britannica - a short video clearly narrated worth viewing as an introduction to the topic

History of Australia - on the ABC navigators website 

Australian explorers, discoverers and pioneers - on the 'Project Gutenberg of Australia' website, neatly sets out links, tabulates information and provides further links

European discovery and the colonisation of Australia - information page from the Australian government's 'Culture and recreation' website

VOC Historical Society of Western Australia - specific information on Dutch exploration, contains excellent table of the voyages and expeditions. Some reading may be difficult and too detailed for children.

Trinity College library - page of links

A map of voyages and links to explorers