Australia is not only the smallest continent but also Earth's largest island. But the land Down Under wasn't always so isolated; it was once part of a bigger supercontinent. So when did Australia ...

DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced the completion of the first phase of a continent-scale mapping initiative ...

A landmass which was once home to up to half a million people has been discovered off the coast of northern Australia. The now-submerged continental shelf was a vast, habitable landscape for much of ...

In 1820, a Russian ship packed with sailors and, oddly, penguins – destined for the men's dinner – spotted a towering shore of ice on the horizon. This was the first ever sighting of the Fimbul Ice ...

Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly ...

Australia might not be as far away as it used to be because the entire continent has moved 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) since 1994, according to Reuters. How did this happen? Tectonic shifts are the reason.

DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced it has received a follow-on contract to deploy its Geospatial Big Data ...

Looking at some of the early European cartographers' maps of the Australian continent, it's hard to not be amused by the inaccuracies. In one, we see Queensland conjoined with Papua New Guinea, while ...

Brits may feel that getting from one end of their country to another is a long-distance haul. But their perspective on the matter might change if they use the fascinating size-comparison map tool by ...

As Australia faces longer, more erratic fire seasons, tools like this may prove essential for staying one step ahead of the ...