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The History of the Exploration of Australia is a 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

Tagging and Categorising Articles

Articles related to exploration in Australia should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Australia|explore=yes}}

Articles related to maritime exploration in Australia should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Australia|explore=yes|maritime=yes}}

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 Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Assessment for details on assessment guidelines.

|class= |importance=

Class

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

Importance

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

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
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

Guidelines for Writing Articles

Explorer Biography Articles

Expedition Articles

Naming

If an expedition had a contemporary "official" name, use that name as its title. For example:

If an expedition is widely known by a particular name, then the article should use that name as its title. example:

If the expedition or series of expeditions does not have wide recognition with a particular name, then it should be titled in the form {{Explorer/s}} {{expedition/s or voyage}} ({{date}} - 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:

Content

Articles about a particular expedition or series of expeditions, should answer the following questions.

1. Who lead 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 occured?
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)?
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