About
The Western Australian Explorers' Diaries Project is a sustained volunteer effort to bring together, in authoritative edited form, the complete record of Western Australian exploration from 1826 to the present day.
These reports and journals are published as Western Australian Exploration - a must for modern day explorers and travellers, and anyone interested in the discovery and naming of places and features in Western Australia.
The diaries, letters and reports of exploration have proved to be useful sources for modern research historians and especially those engaged in heritage matters and native title history. For those who wish to retrace the routes of the first explorers these volumes are an essential reference.
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- The 21 year, 21 Volume, 7.1 million word output of the Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project.
Since the inception of the Project in 2000, Western Australian Exploration has established its reputation as a substantial and credible Project, garnering more attention from its audience and sponsors. The current quantum of the Project’s output is more than 8400 pages and in excess of 7.7 million words over 20 Volumes.
The work continues with three Volumes currently in preparation and a substantial list of Companion Volumes published by Hesperian Press under the aegis of the Historical Records of Western Australia.
Western Australian Exploration is pre-eminent in the exploration heritage of Western Australia. Nowhere else in the world has a Project such as this been undertaken.