Brennan, Claire, Stevenson, Ana, Lloyd, Rohan, Bradshaw, Wayne, Govor, Elena, and Mills, Kaitlin (2027) Casting a net across oceans: Digitally mapping early scientific voyages in the Indo-Pacific region. History Australia. (In Press)

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Abstract

This article takes stock of the interdisciplinary Expeditions To The Pacific project which uses the TLCMap interface to create digital maps of scientific voyages within the Indo-Pacific region completed by 1834. While recognising the many ways in which European voyaging accounts have been used in the writing of Pacific history, this article argues that digital maps offer new, place-based ways of viewing, comparing, and interpreting voyage accounts. This article describes the value and process of identifying 'scientific' voyages to create a workable corpus, and the ways in which interaction with the TLCMap interface has shaped the project and its website www.ExpeditionsToThePacific.org. This article records the project's challenges and progress, the ways in which the maps created have already informed a range of projects, and assesses the project's limitations.

Item ID:	86379
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1833-4881
Keywords:	Scientific exploration, Environmental history, Pacific history, Natural history collecting, Digital mapping
Copyright Information:	© 2026 The authors.
Date Deposited:	02 Oct 2026 04:55
FoR Codes:	43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430302 Australian history @ 30% 43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430315 History of the pacific @ 30% 43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430307 Environmental history @ 40%
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