Online Resources
for Students

The Companion to Tasmanian history website contains information about important periods of Tasmania’s history and can be searched by topic and keywords. There is also a text edition in the Tarremah Library.

Trove is the catalogue for the National Library of Australia. Within the catalogue there are maps, digitised historical documents and archived newspapers as well as music and images.

Mythica is an online encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion containing over 7,000 articles.

AustLit aims to be the definitive virtual research environment and information resource for Australian literary, print, and narrative culture. 

The Atlas of Living Australia provides online information on all Australian plants and animals. Includes images, literature, sightings, maps, research and other data.

With over 6000 items catalogued in the Maritime museum of Tasmania, images and information on these photographs and other nautical items are available on the Maritime museum’s website.  

The Australian Poetry Library contains a large number of poems by hundreds of Australian poets from 1810 to present. This website has a glossary and information for teachers.

CIA World Fact Book provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. 

ABC Education contains free resources that are mapped to the Australian Curriculum, covering English, Maths, Science, Geography, History, The Arts and Technologies, including STEM.

The Australian Dictionary of Biography contains concise and informative descriptions of the lives of over 13,000 significant and representative persons in Australian history.

Online encyclopedia A-Z Animals includes interesting information about a range of animals in an easy to read format.

Awesome Stories features biographies on a number of famous people and stories on a number of topics shown on the bottom strip of icons.