The next time you're driving down a country road in outback Australia, consider there's a good chance that very route was originally mapped out by Aboriginal people perhaps thousands of years before ...

It's hoped a world-first map recording Aboriginal knowledge will give Australian researchers and landholders a greater understanding of the environment. The online map, curated by the Indigenous ...

Professor Ray Norris of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and colleagues from Macquarie University have researched the use of stars and constellations by certain ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. This article is more than 7 years old. In the Northern ...

For 50,000 years, Australias First Peoples have traveled long distances using star maps in the night sky. When youre driving on a major road out on country, chances are you may be driving on an ...

The Maps update has been a four-year project, with Apple saying it has only scratched the surface in highlighting how technology can help preserve culture and enhance education. The tech titan has ...

Apple has updated its Maps app to display traditional Aboriginal names for places across Australia, reports The Australian. The Maps update has been a four-year project, with Apple saying it has only ...

MAPS, signs and tourism brochures are set to be rewritten after official endorsements of the original Aboriginal names of six locations. The sites -- including Mt Wellington -- will now have dual ...

The rich history of the Lake Eyre Basin is being celebrated with a mapping project showing Aboriginal stories, songlines, trade routes, and language groups.

Tasmania's Aboriginal Affairs Minister has apologised for the publication of a racist slur as a place name on a government map. The Tasmanian government will immediately seek to remove the place's ...