A page from the handwritten French journal that describes Australia in 1687.Credit ... Venning said when his research showed up that the ship had made an unexpected landfall on the Australian ...

“As a gateway between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Darwin exemplifies Australia’s strategic role in the region.” French navy supply ship Jacques Chevallier arrives in Darwin as part of ...

Colonel Benjamin McLennan on the ship's flight deck. Picture: Evan Morgan Ambassador Thébault said despite the cancellation of the French contract to supply submarines to Australia he was more ...