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Pacific Area -- Discovery and exploration

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• Pacific Area
• Discovery and exploration

• Pacific Area -- Discovery and exploration -- English
• Pacific Area -- Discovery and exploration -- French
• Australia -- Discovery and exploration

• Who's Who in Pacific Navigation (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1991), by John Dunmore (PDF and Epub with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)
• Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by Derek Howse (HTML at UC Press)

• A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World (London: Printed for A. Hogg, ca. 1786), ed. by George William Anderson (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Explorations and Encounters in French (with articles in English and French; c2010), ed. by F. J. Fornasiero and Colette Mrowa-Hopkins (PDF files with commentary at Adelaide)

• Macassan History and Heritage: Journeys, Encounters and Influences (c2013), ed. by Marshall Alexander Clark and Sally K. May
  • multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Australian Discovery (1929), by Ernest Scott (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration: Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions Into and Through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, From 1872 to 1876, by Ernest Giles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Early Australian Voyages, by John Pinkerton (Gutenberg text)
• Early Explorers in Australia, From the Log-Books and Journals, by Ida Lee (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• Explorations in Australia (1875), by John Forrest (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Explorations in Australia: The Journals of John McDouall Stuart During the Years 1858, 1859, 1861 & 1862, When He Fixed the Centre of the Continent and Successfully Crossed it From Sea to Sea (second edition, 1865), by John McDouall Stuart, ed. by William Hardman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Explorers of Australia, and Their Life-Work (1908), by Ernest Favenc
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 (Sydney: Turner and Henderson, 1888), by Ernest Favenc
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Journals of Australian Explorations (Brisbane: J. Beal, 1884), by Augustus Charles Gregory and Francis Thomas Gregory (Gutenberg text)
• Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia, Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together with a Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847, by Charles Sturt (Gutenberg text)
• The Naval Pioneers of Australia (London: J. Murray, 1899), by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Our Australian Cousins (London: Macmillan, 1880), by James Inglis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Romance of Australian Exploring (Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1910), by G. Firth Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Expeditions in the Interior of Eastern Australia, With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales (London: T. and W. Boone, 1839), by T. L. Mitchell (HTML at PDF at University of Sydney)
• A Voyage to Terra Australis (2 volumes, 1814), by Matthew Flinders
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, From Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a Distance of Upwards of 3000 Miles, During the Years 1844-1845 (London: T. amp; W. Boone, 1847), by Ludwig Leichhardt
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images in Germany
• The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R. N., by Ernest Scott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Logbooks of the "Lady Nelson," With the Journal of Her First Commander Lieutenant James Grant, by Ida Lee (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia, From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, by William John Wills, ed. by William Wills (Gutenberg text)
• Terre Napoleon: A History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia (second edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1911), by Ernest Scott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland From Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1, by Edward John Eyre (Gutenberg text)

• Commodore Sir John Hayes: His Voyage and Life (1767-1831); With Some Account of Admiral d'Entrecasteaux's Voyage of 1792-3 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912), by Ida Lee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Coming of the British to Australia, 1788 to 1829 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by Ida Lee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Marooned on Australia: Being the Narration by Diedrich Buys of His Discoveries and Exploits in Terra Australis Incognita About the Year 1630 (London et al.: Blackie and Son, ca. 1896), by Ernest Favenc, illust. by Percy F. S. Spence (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the Year 1813, by Gregory Blaxland (illustrated HTML in Australia)
• Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria, by T. L. Mitchell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Journals of Two Expeditions Into the Interior of New South Wales, By Order of the British Government in the Years 1817-18, by John Oxley (Gutenberg text)
• Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, During the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: With Observations on the Soil, Climate, and General Resources of the Colony of New South Wales, by Charles Sturt (Gutenberg text)

• Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, by John White (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay, by Watkin Tench
  • HTML and PDF at University of Sydney
  • Gutenberg text

• Narrative of an Expedition, Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy, For the Exploration of the Country Lying Between Rockingham Bay and Cape York, by Wm. Carron., One of the Survivors of the Expedition, by William Carron (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland, by Frank Lascelles Jardine and Alexander Jardine, ed. by Frederick J. Byerley (Gutenberg text)
• Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria, by T. L. Mitchell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland From Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1, by Edward John Eyre (Gutenberg text)

• Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland From Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1, by Edward John Eyre (Gutenberg text)

• A Voyage to New Holland, &c., in the Year 1699 (1703), by William Dampier (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific (2005), ed. by Antony Hooper (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Full Circle (c1997), by Michael Palin (illustrated HTML at commentary in the UK)

• The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c2005), by John R. Eperjesi (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c2005), by John R. Eperjesi (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Pacific Languages: An Introduction (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1998), by John Lynch (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• Mid-Pacific Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Pacific Historical Review (partial serial archives)

• The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific (2004), ed. by Ronald James May and Viberto Selochan (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific (2005), ed. by Antony Hooper (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Australia: Our Neighbor "Down Under" (1944), by Herbert Heaton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pocket Guide to Australia (ca. 1942), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • black and white scan: PDF in Australia
• Australia Unlimited (Melbourne: G. Robertson and Co., ca. 1918), by E. J. Brady (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oztralia, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)
• The Three Colonies of Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Their Pastures, Copper Mines and Gold Fields (London: Ingram, Cooke and Co., 1852), by Samuel Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Three Colonies of Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Their Pastures, Copper Mines and Gold Fields (second edition; London: Ingram, Cooke and Co., 1853), by Samuel Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oceania: A Supplementary Geography (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by James Franklin Chamberlain and Arthur Henry Chamberlain
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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