Mappe Monde old map The view looks north across

The view looks north across the Yarra (from above Southbank) with Flinders Street Station and Elizabeth Street centre

Burley Griffin's winning plan for the Federal Capital of Australia in 1911

the newly formed Western Australian Land Company purchased land in the area and surveyed a town site which they named as a kind of bizarre combination of Australia and India

Although the Hawkesbury bridge was more utilitarian in purpose

being native to the island of Tasmania and mainland Victoria

Mappe Monde old map The view looks north acrossCreator Bonne Rigobert 1727 1794 Royal Cartographer to France Date 1778 A striking world map by Bonne, publishedin in Paris. Australia is shown 'Nouvelle Hollande' with Tasmania joined to the mainland, as understood by the European explorers prior to explorations of Bass and Flinders in 1799. Source: Library of Congress, Washington