Australia--one land: two peoples.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: Suter, Keith | Copyright information

NATURE periodically reminds Australians just how fragile their hold on the land is. The country's Indigeneous Peoples have always had a keen awareness of this but the Europeans have had a greater confidence in their ability to tame the land. Are the Indigenous Peoples being proved right?

Australia is a great deal larger than it appears on most maps of the world. Most maps use the Mercator projection (named after Gerardus Mercator, 1512-1594, a Flemish cartographer and ma...

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