Oceania

detail of cover of Air travel and holiday with illustration of two women driving a car past some boats

Cover of Air travel and holiday, vol. 1, No. 3 (cropped), March 1948, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3997211269

Destination Trove: Travel magazines now online

Pack your bags for a trip through new travel serials, now on Trove.

News article

Group of dancers wearing large leaves around their necks and grass skirts, standing in a circle with their arms raised

Liza Moscatelli, Matavai Pacific Cultural Arts Dancers performing in 'Motu of Western Sydney', Whitlam Leisure Centre, Liverpool, N.S.W., April, 2022, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3180077661

Pacific Peoples in Australia Project

We want to connect with peoples of diverse Pacific and South Sea Islander heritage living in Australia.

Information article

A black and white photograph of a man in a suit standing in front of flagpoles with the US and Australian flags

Power and vision: Australia and the South Pacific Commission

2025 National Library of Australia Fellow Dr Alexis Bergantz shared his Fellowship research on the history of the South Pacific Commission.

Event

Video

Group of Papua New Guineans in traditional dress, including feathered headpieces, at the Independence Day Celebration.

Terence and Margaret Spencer, Independence Day Celebration, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1975, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-145645567

Papua New Guinea: 50 years of Independence

Explore parliamentary debates relating to the Independence of Papua New Guinea.

Blog

Hardstaff Collection

91 charts of Australia and the Pacific produced by the British Admiralty and Hydrographic Service.

Collection guide

Chinnery Collection

Papers, maps and a large collection of photographs related to Papua New Guinea mainly from the period 1910-1940.

Collection guide

Burke Collection

Papers, photographs, ephemera, books and journals from Europe, Asia, America and Australia ranging from 1850-1950 collected by Eric Keast Burke.

Collection guide

Petherick Collection

About 15,000 books and pamphlets. The great strength of the collection is in Pacific voyages and early Australiana with many very rare items. Also manuscripts including papers of Joseph Banks, maps and pictures.

Collection guide

First Australians

Sir Peter Crisp Collection

696 books and pamphlets relating to freshwater fishing mostly from Britain, as well as many from Australia, New Zealand and America.

Collection guide

Detailed map of the southern cost of Australia with various annotations and notes

John Arrowsmith and William Clowes and Sons, Map of the southern coast of Australia from Encounter Bay to King George's Sound shewing Mr. Eyre's track in the years 1839, 1830 & 41 in his attempt to penetrate into the interior, 1843, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232546838

Tooley Collection

1,277 charts and maps dating from the 16th to the late 19th centuries, including maps of the Pacific and New Zealand as well as Australia.

Collection guide

A detailed historical map of Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, depicting early settlement areas, marked camps, and referenced landmarks such as gardens and marine camps. Includes a list of ship names from the First Fleet and geographical details.

Francis Fowkes, Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, in the County of Cumberland, 1789, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230578175

Nan Kivell Collection

About 5,000 books, pamphlets and periodicals, over 11,000 paintings, drawings and prints, around 800 maps and over 300 manuscripts mostly published 1770–1900. Largely relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific including Antarctica.

Collection guide

First Australians

Map of Antarctica showing territories and dependencies.

Australia. Department of the Interior. Property and Survey Branch. & E. P. Bayliss, J. S. & Cumpston, Antarctica, 1939, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-236895938

Australian explorations in the Antarctic

Diaries, papers, photographs, maps and other material related to Australia's involvement in the Antarctic

Collection guide

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