It's an aboriginal shield, one of the very first objects brought to England from Australia, and it was brought here by the explorer Captain Cook. We know the precise date that it came into Cook's ...

It's an aboriginal shield, one of the very first objects brought to England from Australia, and it was brought here by the explorer Captain Cook. We know the precise date that it came into Cook's ...

Near his burial place, paintings adorn the rocks and depict different Aboriginal peoples wielding shields and boomerangs, creating a fuller picture of pre-colonial Australia and its peoples.

A yellow circle in the centre for the sun. This is the design of the Aboriginal flag, which is seen all over Australia - atop bridges and buildings, painted on walls, printed on T-shirts.