Title: Australian Navigators
Description: Why, in the last decades of the 1700s, did sailors from the warring nations of Britain and France come to this far-flung corner of the world in an attempt to chart coastlines in the Pacific, including Australia? This is an account of the race to find and chart these coastlines.
Subjects: Discovery and exploration, Explorers, History, Boats and boating, Australian studies, Australia, discovery and exploration
Places: Australia
Time periods: To 1788