Filling In The Map: Exploring inland Australia

When the First Fleet arrived in Australia in 1788, Governor Arthur Phillip selected a sheltered cove as the site of Australia’s first colony.

Aboriginal people knew their Country in detail. They had a network of tracks across the continent and detailed knowledge of food and water sources.

But for the European settlers, Australia was a 7.7-million-square-kilometre mystery to solve.  Filling in the Map is a history of the colonial explorers who charted the coastlines, scaled the mountains and crossed the deserts in search of farmland and freshwater – and filled the map of Australia.

For Ages 7 - 12 years old

About the author

Carole Wilkinson is an award-winning children’s author who writes historical fiction and non-fiction. She is best known for her much-loved Dragonkeeper double trilogy set in Han Dynasty China.

Carole Wilkinson
Published June 2025
Paperback
40 pages 
297mm x 210mm
ISBN  9781742036557