Thanks to the generous support of donors to the 2025 Tax Time appeal, selections from the Library’s Antarctica Collections are now available on Trove.

We explored early modern maps with cartographic historian Chet Van Duzer.

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In 1877, meteorologist and astronomer Henry Russell produced the first published weather map for the colony of New South Wales.

Our Maps collection includes around 1 million maps, from early European charts to current mapping of Australia, in print and digital form.

Sarah Luke

A little-known chapter of Australia’s past is that the convict settlement at Port Jackson became the first British port in the Pacific. Following his 2025 lecture at the Library, maritime historian Chris Maxworthy returned to expand on his research.

The Library recently acquired an original draft of a poem by Mark Twain in the form of a letter.

145 original works of Conrad Martens, consisting of four oil paintings, 91 watercolours, and 51 sepia wash, pencil and wash, or pencil drawings, plus a number of his lithographs

About 5000 books, pamphlets, reprints and journals published 1760-1940 in English, French, German, Italian and Russian. They relate to all aspects of ornithology in all parts of the world, with a special focus on Australian birds.

Acclaimed artist Matt Aberline gave an engaging talk on The Guardians, his latest large-scale installation at the National Library of Australia.