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The History of the Exploration of Australia is an outline of exploration in Australia and it's territories.

This page is a subpage of WikiProject Australian history.


 * Australian geography, as explained in the works of Australian exploration, might be called an unlearned study.
 * Australia Twice Traversed, by Ernest Giles

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Tagging and Categorising Articles
Articles related to exploration in Australia should be tagged on the Talk page with

Articles related to maritime exploration in Australia should be tagged on the Talk page with

For full details about using this talk page template see Template:WP Australia.

Rating Articles
When tagging articles, the articles class and importance can be rated. Please see WikiProject Australia/Assessment for details on assessment guidelines.
 * |class= |importance=

Class
The following values may be used for the class parameter:
 * FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Australia articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Australia articles)
 * GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Australia articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Australia articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Australia articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Australia articles)
 * NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Australia pages)

Importance
The following values may be used for the importance parameter:
 * Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Australia articles)
 * In relation to exploration, articles with a Top rating will typically be the most notable explorers and expeditions in Australian history. ie James Cook, Burke and Wills
 * High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Australia articles)
 * Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Australia articles)
 * Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Australia articles)
 * In relation to exploration, articles with a Low rating will typically be the explorers and expeditions not well known in Australian history. The exploration may have been limited in scope, or performed by people to whom exploration was not their main occupation. Remember that another Australian project may deem the article of higher importance for non-exploration related reasons.
 * The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA

Infobox
Biographical infoboxes can be found at Biography Infoboxes. Where explorers had other careers some shortcuts to pertinent infoboxes are listed.
 * General Bios - Template:Infobox Biography
 * Military Bios - Template:Infobox Military Person
 * Political Bios - Template:Infobox Politician

Resources

 * Australian Explorers, Discoverers and Pioneers Project Gutenberg of Australia site, with books online.
 * Biography of Early Australia
 * South Land to New Holland: Dutch Charting of Australia 1606–1756
 * Timeline of Exploration and survey of The Australian coastline
 * The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765
 * Early Voyages to Terra Australis, now called Australia
 * Australia Twice Traversed, by Ernest Giles
 * The History of Australian Exploration - Timeline by Ernest Favenc
 * Early explorers of the region surrounding Woomera

Explorer Biography Articles

 * should follow guidelines established by WikiProject Biography (see Manual of Style (biographies))

Naming
If an expedition had a contemporary "official" name, use that name as its title. For example:
 * Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition
 * Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition

If an expedition is widely known by a particular name, then the article should use that name as its title. example:
 * Burke and Wills
 * La Grange Expedition

If the expedition or series of expeditions does not have wide recognition with a particular name, then it should be titled in the form  ( - optional to be used if the explorer (or pairing of explorers) had more than one expedition) ; that is, Explorer expedition or Explorer expedition of year. Examples:
 * King expedition of 1817
 * Eyre's 1839 expeditions
 * Hume and Hovell expedition

Content
Articles about a particular expedition or series of expeditions, should answer the following questions.
 * 1. Who led the exploration party?
 * 2. Who else was in the party, and what did they do?
 * 3. What dates did they leave, return, reach an objective?
 * 4. What was the purpose of the expedition? Did they achieve it?
 * 5. Who funded the expedition?
 * 6. What was or was not discovered? What significant events occurred?
 * 7. What route did they take? (show chart if possible)
 * 8. What vessel, means of travel, equipment did they use?
 * 9. What did the lesser members of the party accomplish (ie botanists, artists, astronomers etc)?
 * 10. What has been written about the expedition (ie books, movies)?