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Gold: Sydney Sesqui-Centenary 'March to Nationhood' Pageant

Copper: Sydney Sesqui-Centenary 'March to Nationhood' Pageant

Fire: Sydney Sesqui-Centenary 'March to Nationhood' Pageant

Overland Telegraph: Sydney Sesqui-Centenary 'March to Nationhood' Pageant

Pottery: Adelaides Centenary Pageant of Progress

Tin: Sydney Sesqui-Centenary 'March to Nationhood' Pageant

Designer Thelma Afford with women in costumes for Sydney Sesqui-centenary 'March to Nationhood' Pageant

Apples: Sydney Sesqui-Centenary High Schools Pageant

Wheat: Sydney Sesqui-Centenary High Schools Pageant

Coal: Sydney Sesqui-Centenary 'March to Nationhood' Pageant

Honey: Adelaides Centenary Pageant of Progress

Wine: Adelaides Centenary Pageant of Progress

Flower arrangement by Adrian Feint, November 1947, photographed by Max Dupain

Line of Renault cars outside the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1956, by Asher Joel

Parsley Bay, Sydney, ca. 1845 , oil painting, GE Peacock

Circular Quay, from Belmore Hotel, 10 July 1914, John Job Crew Bradfield

Les Corvettes L'Astrolabe Et La Zelee caught in Antarctic ice, watercolour by A. Mayer. (1838)

Map of Antarctica (1657) Hondius, H., & Jansson, J

Kids Crafting 101 - Preschool Color Collage Art Activity

Find out more about Matthew Flinders.

Ludwig Leichhardt

On an expedition to cross the Australian continent explorer Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848) disappeared.

The search party for Leichhardt ...

Bungaree was a friend of Matthew Flinders and the first Aboriginal person to circumnavigate Australia on the HMS Investigator.

Would you like to wear this hat? This black velour bicorn hat trimmed with black braid on upper edges, and with leather cockade belonged to Captain Matthew Flinders.

Matthew Flinders, ca. 1800 - watercolour miniature portrait.

A lock of hair can be found behind the miniature portrait of Matthew Flinders.

Dress sword and scabbard : said to have belonged to Matthew Flinders

This telescope is thought to have belonged to Leichhardt, 1842.

What did Matthew Flinders take with him on the HMS Investigator?

This is a new terrestrial globe created by Nathaniel Hill in 1754. Can you see New Holland?

Abel Tasman's map from 1644

Explore some of the maps in the Library collection.

The Long Goodbye by P. J. Parker, shortlisted for the National Biography Award, 2017. Published by Hardie Grant Books, 2016.