Last Saturday at 9:49am local time, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurred about 50km west of Gympie in Queensland. The ...

Many countries — including Australia — produce maps and measurements with the lines of longitude and latitude fixed to their continent.

A crumbling 17th century map of Australia—sketched more than 100 years before James Cook made his famed voyage to the continent—has been restored after a painstaking conservation project. And ...

The Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology meticulously keeps long-term records on rainfall throughout the continent. One BOM webpage, titled “Australian Climate Variability & Change — Trend Maps ...

The continent of Australia tilts and shifts a visible amount as the seasons change, new research suggests. "That motion causes quite a detectable, sizable deformation in Australia," said the study ...

Cartographers in the 1600s had bold ideas of Australia, and some incredible methods of depicting those ideas in maps and globes.