Plenary Speakers

Mercedes Camino (Lancaster)
"Mapping Terra Australis Incognita: The Spanish Pacific 1519-1794"

Norman Etherington (UWA)
"Recovering the Imperial Context of the mid-Victorian Exploration of Northern Australia, 1855-57"

Alfred Hiatt (Leeds)
"Terra australis"

Papers

Patrick Armstrong (UWA)
"Charles Darwin's appraisal of some Australian environments"

Noelene Bloomfield (UWA)
"Strategies, Maladies, Trials and Triumphs in the French Quest for Terra Australis"

Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent, Susie Protschky (UWA) to be read by Susan Broomhall
"Orange Cartography: Nassau family identity in colonial expansion"

Joseph Christensen (UWA)
"Ships as scientific instruments: the development of seaborne scientific investigations and its impact upon the progress of geography and natural history in North-West Australia, 1616-1858"

Sophie Doughty (UWA)
"L’héritage méconnu des explorateurs français en Australie occidentale. The hidden heritage of the French explorers in Western Australia"

Vivian Forbes (UWA)
"The Fourth Quadrant: Empirical Observations. Mapping the ‘Unknown Land’ before 1700"

Rebecca Giggs (UWA)
"The Mare Incognitum (Unknown Sea) in Australian Cartographic and Literary Imagination; Some Historical and Contemporary Reflections"

Des Gurry (Independent)
"From Botany Bay, to Risdon Cove, to King George’s Sound. Where?"

Dennis Haskell (UWA)
"From New Britannia to Kangaroo: Early Poetic Perceptions of Australia"

Bill Leadbetter (ECU)
"The Roman South"

Mack McCarthy (WA Museum) to be read by Myra Stanbury
"The first female circumnavigators"

John Melville-Jones (UWA)
"Concepts and Denials of the Southern Land in the millennium from Herodotus to Cosmas Indicopleustes"

Felicity Morel-EdnieBrown (Northbridge Project)
"Terra Incognita Particular"

Katrina O’Loughlin (UWA)
"Mary Ann Parker’s Voyage around the world in the Gorgon man of war (1794)"

Leigh Penman (Melbourne)
"The Wicked and the Fair. Perceptions of the Batavia Shipwreck from Federation to the Bicentennial"

Bill Richardson (Flinders)
"Jave la Grande yet again: its real identity revealed by the place-name evidence"

Margaret Sankey (Sydney)
"Mapping Terra australis in the French seventeenth century: the Mémoires of the Abbé Jean Paulmier"

John West-Sooby & Jean Fornasiero (Adelaide)
"Naming and Shaming: the Baudin Expedition and the Politics of Nomenclature"

Christopher Wortham (UWA)
"Meanings of the South: Some Cartographic and Literary Sources"