Nicolas Baudin’s voyage at the height of the Napoleonic wars gave us dozens of French place names, and left with kangaroos for the Empress Josephine Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingFrom La Perouse in Sydney to Victoria’s French Isl…
animal maps!
Mapping Movements – The Art and the Science “We all love to look at maps of animal movements, but producing good maps is challenging. Thus, our aim was to launch a competition to attract contributions from a broad range of fields, to facilitate knowled…
Fun with place name patterns
Peer into the Europe’s past by looking at place names, for example to see the range of Roman conquest of Britain or the historical borders of Poland and Silesia.
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‘I never saw my guitar again’: readers on belongings they lost in a breakup
Long after two people have gone their separate ways, some partings still rankle. Readers reflect on the beloved items they left behindEven though my breakup was amicable, I felt a lot of guilt – so when I moved out I said: “Keep it all.” But, in the ye…