Filling in the Map

When the First Fleet arrived in Australia in 1788, Governor Arthur Phillip selected a sheltered cove as the site of Australia’s first colony.
Australia is a big place. It covers 7.7 million square kilometres. ‘Filling in the Map’ is a history of the explorers who charted the coastlines, scaled the mountains and crossed the deserts in search of farmland and freshwater – and filled the map of Australia.