A new exhibition at the National Library of Australia is using maps to tell the story of how Australia became known to the rest of the world.
On show are some of the world's earliest maps imagining a great southern land, among them the Fra Mauro Map of the World, from the 1450s, which has never before been displayed outside Venice.
There are also Aboriginal paintings and maps that show how indigenous people understood their world, and some of the early charts of the Dutch explorers and Matthew Flinders' 1814 General Chart of Australia.
Maps curator Dr Martin Woods has told Anneke Mackay-Smith, from SBS Radio's Dutch program, about the exhibition.
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