200 years since Australia put on the map - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

200 years since Australia put on the map - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Hundreds of history buffs are descending on the NSW State Library as it marks 200 years to the day since the first map of Australia's coastline was published.

Matthew Flinders, the first person to circumnavigate Australia, was also the first to map its coastline, however the first published map was produced by French naturalist Nicolas Baudin.

The two crossed paths during their long voyage around the coastline, meeting unexpectedly in the waters of Encounter Bay near Victor Harbor in South Australia."