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Geography Reference Bibliography Archives Materials Libraries Web Directories Biography and Genealogy Associations Museums History Topics Maritime History Unsorted

Research Tools

Maps
- Main Map
  - Relief [188 Kb]
  - Political [195 Kb]
- Other Maps, including satellite and aerial photographs
  - Regions
    - Adelaide [1046 Kb]
    - Canberra [935 Kb]
  - Territories
    - Christmas Island [839 Kb]
    - Cocos (Keeling) Islands [142 Kb]
    - Coral Sea Islands [125 Kb]
    - Heard and McDonald Islands [49 Kb]
    - Norfolk Island
  - Historical Maps
    - Australia's Maritime Contact History
    - Rare Maps Digitisation Project of the National Library of Australia
- Gazetteers
  - Cities, Towns and Suburbs: Gazetteers of Australia
- World Heritage Sites
Reference Works
- WWW-VL Australian Studies
- "Australia on the Map: 1606-2006" (AOTM) is a national not-for-profit organisation dedicated to helping and encouraging the people of Australia plan events for 2006. Our focus is particularly on the many Mariners who (whether by accident or design) charted our coasts – and put “Australia on the Map”, thereby making it known to the world.
- Wikipedia
- Australian National Dictionary Centre
- The World Factbook 2001. Australia
- U.S. Department of State Background Notes for Australia
Search Facilities
- The Australian Information Server in History and the Humanities
- Australian Historic Records Register (AHRR) [includes materials in private hands]
- Directory of Archives in Australia
- Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM)
- Search the National Archives
Bibliography
- Bibliography including link pages
  - On-Line Exhibitions at Australian Libraries [a major resource, offering links to a large number of exhibitions on specific topics, presented by the Australian Libraries Gateway]
  - Australian Museums and Galleries Online - Stories [a major resource, offering links to exhibitions on specific subjected presented in Australian museums and galleries.]
  - Australian Information Server in History and the Humanities
  - Australian History Resources
  - More Australian History resources
  - Coombsweb--Australian National University
  - Tables of Contents of the Coomspapers Aboriginal History Journal
  - Links to Australian Aborigine Responses Online, by Bill Henderson [a excellent collection of links, part of a larger collection relating to aboriginal peoples worldwide.
- Archives
  - Documentary
    - National Archives of Australia
    - Archivenet: Archives of Australia
    - Collections Australia [Gateway to museums, galleries, archives & libraries in Austrial]
    - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Historical Research and Access Section
  - Images
    - Pictures Catalogue. The National Library of Australia's Pictorial Collection
    - Picture Australia
  - Sound
- Libraries
  - Gateway to Australian Libraries
- Web Directories
  - Findouter Australia
- Museums
  - Guide to Australia's Museums and Galleries
  - Jewish Museum of Australia
  - Western Australian Maritime Museum
  - Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame features working life in the Outback.
- Journals
  - WWW-VL. History. The History Journals Guide
  - Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History, including full texts of some fifteen articles and reports.
  - Australian Journals On-Line
  - Australian Historical Studies
  - Australian Humanities Review
  - The Australian Economic History Review
  - The Flinders Journal of History and Politics
  - Journal of the Australian War Memorial
  - Sabretache, The Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia [index to articles on-line]
  - Simply Australia [a general magazine with many articles of historical interest]
- Publishers and Bookdealers
Biography and Genealogy
- Demography
- Collective Biography
  - Prime Ministers of Australia
  - Whiskers Hill Online. The Dictionary Of Australian Bushrangers. by Stephan Williams [archived copy]
- Individual Biographies
  - Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de (1729-1811)
  - James Cook [link page]
  - William Dampier
  - Governor Lachlan Macquarie
  - Melba, Dame Nellie. An Australian Icon [lecture by Moya MacFadzean 2001. pdf file]
  - General Sir John Monash 1865-1931
  - Parkes, Sir Henry 1815-1896
  - The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, from Guternberg.
- Genealogy
  - Researching Family Historyfrom the National Archives
  - Australian Family History Compendium
  - Australasian Genealogy
  - Armed Services Personal Records
  - Tasmanian GenWeb

Materials

On-Line Texts and Document Collections
- 110 Key Founding Documents
- Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act
- Hansard's transcripts of the Parliament of Australia
- Parliamentary Library Publications [extensive and varied materials]
- Ministry of Defense Media Releases
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade [Links to Treaties, Publications etc]
- Documenting a Democracy [founding documents of Australia presented by the National Archives]
- The Australian Electronic Texts Collection, from the University of Sidney Library. A massive collection of well-chosen books and articles.
- Australian Literary and Historical Texts [Provided by the University of Sydney, and part of the Australian Electronic Texts Collection.
- Documents relating to the Federation of the Five Australian Colonies (1901) [extensive materials and a list of selected links presented by the National Archives]
- Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899 [Important Data Base coverage: 1799-1836]
- Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899 [Coverage: 1836-]
- Decisions of the Nineteenth Century Tasmanian Superior Courts [1824-]
- The New South Wales Journal of Richard Atkins, Judge Advocate of New South Wales [Coverage: 1792-1794
- The CIA in Australia [Transcript radio documentary, Part 1 of a 5 part series. Watching brief, PRNS, October 1986]
  - Part 2
  - Part 3
  - Part 4
  - Part 5
  - Arid Zone Settlement in Australia: A Focus on Alice Springs , by D.N. Parkes, I.H. Burnley, and S.R. Walker, from the United Nations University
- Australian War Memorial Data Bases
- Collected Papers
  - Papers of Sir Joseph Banks [from the State Library of New South Wales]
  - Collected Papers of A. A. Fisher 1890-1962
  - Matthew Flinders Collection
  - Letters and Journals Relating to the Church Missionary Society Mission to Wellington Valley New South Wales 1830-40, Edited by Hilary M. Carey and David A. Roberts. [archived]
  - The Journal of Syms Covington. Assistant to Charles Darwin Esq. on the Second Voyage of the HMS Beagle December 1831 - September 1836, Edited and Annotated by Vern Weitzel.
- Images
  - Ministry of Defence Gallery

Associations

Universities
Funding Institutions
- Australian Heritage Council
- History Trust of South Australia

Chronology

Timelines
- Timeline Australia
- Historical information on the Australian Parliament

Instruction

Distance Learning Centers
- Hidden Histories offered by Museum Victoria
On-Line Course Materials
On-Line Syllabi and Lectures
- History 381. Australia and New Zealand, Professor Tom Isern at North Dakota State University (US)
Employment

History

Chronological
- Surveys and Overviews
  - Australia's Maritime Contact History: 1606-2006.
- Prehistoric
- Ancient
- Medieval
  - The Aboriginal Tasmanians
  - The Euahlayi Tribe. A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia, by K. Langloh Parker (London: Constable; 1905)
- The Discovery of Australia, by Diego de Prado, from the University of Sydney Library.
- Imagined Landscapes. The Tasman Map Reconfigured, from the Australian Network for Art & Technology [the world of the voyages of the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in the 1640s recreated with high technical skill]
- Hartog to De Vlamingh Exhibition - 100 years of Dutch explorations of Australia [[1599-1697]
17th Century
18th Century
- The Historical Significance of The Mutiny on the Bounty, by Jack Hoblitzell, from Commentary,
- Bloodless Genocide. A Political History of the Pitcairn People in Norfolk Island from 1856 to 1996 (full text of book published by Greenways Press, Norfolk Island, 1996.
- William Dampier
- Site of Replica of Endeavour. The Charting of Australia and New Zealand by James Cook, 1768-1771
- The First Fleet 1788
  - A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay (1787-1788), by Watkin Tench, from University of Sidney Library
  - Convicts transported on the First Fleet
  - Australia's First Fleet 1788 [contains a wealth of material]
  - First Fleet On-Line [A presentation for the purposes of instruction]
  - The First Fleet
  - A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson (1788- ), by Watkin Tench, from the University of Sydney Library. [a contemporary account by a participant]
  - Letters From An Exile At Botany Bay, by Thomas Watling, from the University of Sidney. Describes the Colony in the years 1791-1792.
  - Botany Bay: True Tales of Early Australia, by John Lang, from the University of Sydney Library
  - The New South Wales Journal of Richard Atkins, Judge Advocate of New South Wales [Coverage: 1792-1794]
- Mutiny Aboard the HMS Bounty, 1789
  - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty 1789
  - Series 71: Papers concerning the discovery of Pitcairn Island and the mutineers of HMS Bounty, 1808-1809, 1813-1815, [1845], from the Sir Joseph Banks Papers.
  - Reclaiming the Bounty, by Nigel Erkine, from Archaeology, Volume 52 Number 3 May/June 1999.
- Return of Convict Women in the Services of Officers or other Households 1798
19th Century
- Exploration
  - Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia, by Charles H. Smith & Jennifer Rakestraw
- Era of Settlement
  - Journeys in Time, 1809-1822. The Journals of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie
  - 1829 Swan River Settlement Prior to 1890 (Perth)
  - The Diary of Felton Mathew. A Government Surveyor in Colonial New South Wales, 1829-1832
  - Myall Creek Massacre. Rv. Kilmeister and others (No. 2). Supreme Court of New South Wales, 26 November 1838
  - Journal of an overland expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, by Ludwig Leichhardt (London: Boone, 1847), from the Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum [a very well done graphic presentation of the original edition.
- The Gold Fields
  - Gold Rush in New South Wales
  - A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53, by Ellen Clacy, from Gutenberg
  - Australian sketches, by Thomas MacCombie (London, 1861), from the Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum.
  - Australia Felix, by Henry Handel Richardson, from the University of Sydney Library. A dolorous account of the difficult life in the gold fields.
- 1854 The Insurrection at the Eureka Stockade
  - The Eureka Stockade, by Rafaello Carboni, from the University of Sydney Library. A contemporary account by an observer who opposed the Government. Heavy with Latin phrase, taglines and quotations.
  - The Eureka Uprising
  - Arrests at Eureka. Witnesses at the Eureka Trials
- A Residence in Tasmania, by H. Butler Stoney, from the Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum. An account of the island in the 1850s.
- Bloodless Genocide. A Political History of the Pitcairn People in Norfolk Island from 1856 to 1996 The History of the Bounty< mutineers who escaped.
- 1861. Crossing Australia North to South: Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-1861) William John Wills (1834-1861)
- Brennan & Geraghty'�s Store Museum, Maryborough [a general store, opened April 1871, closed 1972, acquired by the National Trust 1975]
- 1872 Crossing West Australia: Ernest Giles - Peter Warburton - William Gosse
- The Kelley Gang. Bushrangers
20th Century
- 1901 Federation of the Five Colonies to Form Australia
- Australian Military History Overview
- The First World War
  - Imagining Australia 1914-1918
  - 1918. Australians in France
  - First Imperial Australian Force. 1914-1918
  - Allan Lorenzo Tongs' Diaries
  - Gallipoli
    - Gallipoli [A Map Collection]
    - Anzac [extensive materials]
    - Officers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps Died at Gallipoli, 1915
    - Gallipoli [Maps and views provided]
    - John Simpson Kirkpatrick. (July 6, 1892 - May 19, 1915
- Between the Wars
  - AUSTRALIA, 1930. An Inaugural Lecture by R. F. Giblin of the University of Melbourne
- The Second World War
  - General
    - World War II Timeline
    - Australia at War, by Peter Dunn [covers a large number of topics]
    - Australia's War 1939-45
    - Australian Campaigns of World War Two
    - Military History of Australia during World War II
    - Australian Women in World War II
    - Indigenous Australians at War
  - Africa
  - Defense of Darwin
  - Papua-New Guinea Campaigns
    - Kokoda Trail, 28 July - 2 November 1942
    - Papua New Guinea - Kokoda Trail Pilgrimage. July 18 - August 1, 1999
  - The War at Sea
  - Borneo
    - Tarakan, Borneo, 1 May 1945
    - Balikpapan, Borneo, 1 July 1945
- The Menzies Era. 1949-1972 [presents a good deal of popular culture]
- Milkbar, from Craig Bellamy
- Vietnam
  - Chronology of Australian Involvement in Vietnam
  - The Australian Involvement in Vietnam [indexes a number of excellent sites]
  - Australia in Vietnam 1962-1972
  - Australian Nurses in Vietnam
- Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister, 1975-1983
- Human Rights In Australia (1985), by L.J.M. Cooray

Topics

Aborigene and Native History

Aboriginal Resistance: Timeline of Aboriginal resistance, 1790-1997.

Maritime History
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- Western Australian Maritime Museum
- Queensland Maritime Museum
- Australian National Centre of Excellence in Maritime Archaeology
- Australian National Shipwreck Database
- Western Australia Shipwreck Database
- Historic Shipwrecks of Perth 1656-1942
- Search Facility of the Archaeology Experimental Artefact Database of the Western Australia Maritime Museum
- Bibliographic Search of the Library of the Western Australia Maritime Museum
- The Richard McKenna Memorial Pictorial Shipping Database, compiled by Western Australian Maritime Museum.
- The Naval Historical Society of Australia
- Strangers on the Shore. Strangers on the Shore Shipwreck survivors and their contact with Aboriginal groups in Western Australia 1628-1956 - From the Western Australia Maritime Museum
- The Archaeology of Whaling in Southern Australia
- Western Australian Maritime Archaeological Site Reports
- The Donnelly Deception and The Mahogany Ship, by Joan Williams Fawcett 1999. [deals with a supposed "ancient ship" wrecked off the coast of S.W. Victoria]
- Richard Osburne account of the Mahogany Ship
- The Duyfken Home Page [discovered Australia 1606]
- The Duyfken Replica Project [includes construction and sailing history - From the Western Australia Maritime Museum]
- The Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie retourschip Batavia [sank off Australia 1629]
- The Batavia Project an experimental reconstruction of a 17th century East Indiaman, by Robert Parthesius
- The Story of the Wreck of the Batavia and the Atrocities that Followed [Story underlying documentary "Shipwreck Coast" filmed in 1995]
- The Zuytdorp Story, [Dutch East Indiaman, sunk off Shark Bay in 1712]
- The Dirk Hartog Island
- French explorers: Saint Aloüarn , by Myra Stanbury
- Artefacts from the Pandora [captured the Mutineers of the Bounty, sank 29 August 1791- From the Queensland Museum]
- Fremantle's Italian Fishing Fleets [history began in the 1890's - - From the Western Australia Maritime Museum]
- Marine Archaeology: The Fremantle Long Jetty, by Dena Garratt [ca. 1890 - From the Western Australia Maritime Museum
- Restoration of 1854/1855 Engine from the Sunken Xantho
- HMAS Ovens
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