Australian researchers have created a new detailed map of Antarctica ice-free land that they say will help protect the continent biodiversity The tea ...

26 January 1788: A convict settlement is establish at Sydney Cove.

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The Founding of Australia 1788 was painted in 1937 by Algernon Talmage. It was commissioned for the sesquicentenary ...

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putting additional pressure on the colony’s growth and stability. Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions ...

In fact, it obscures another important strand of New Zealand’s early development, which reveals how the evolving colony ... in New South Wales. As such, it was a direct import from Australia ...

Architectural historian John Stacpoole (1919-2018) described it as one of a series of buildings that were "little more than shacks", and on the surface it doesn't sound terribly special. There was no ...

Ned Kelly was the lone survivor of the Kelly Gang’s final shootout—but despite suffering 28 injuries, fate had an even crueler twist in store for him.