A piece of a ship is among the Antarctic exploration relics that Tony Shields has collected.
Frontline nurse Alice Ross-King’s World War I diaries tell of a great love - and a dreadful tragedy.
When 20 pages of Australia’s first governor’s journal turned up,it was something of a must-have for the State Library of NSW.
Explorer Matthew Flinders gave Australia its name. He had too much ambition to “rest in the unnoticed middle order of mankind”,but too many of us forget.
The painting,worth more than $1 million,has gone on public display for the first time this week ahead of a reburial service for the explorer,the first person to circumnavigate Australia.
When Sally Wasef sent a bone found in an exclusive Sydney enclave off for carbon testing,she thought it would be a couple of hundred years old. She was wrong.
The beach communities at Little Garie,Era and Burning Palms in Australia’s oldest national park are heritage listed. Their licences expire in March 2027,and the government is yet to decide what happens after that.
Items recovered from the wreck including figurines of baby birds have survived the plundering of treasure hunters.
Amid the chaos of the Red Army advance in Latvia in 1944,Milda and Rudis Masens were separated. After five years in displaced persons camps hoping for news of Rudis,the young mother settled in Newcastle,NSW,and eventually remarried.
The year was 1900 and public enemy number one in Sydney was the plague-infected rat.
The incident came just a day before thousands are expected to gather at the roughly 4500-year-old stone circle to celebrate the summer solstice.