AUSTRALIA IN MAPS is an essential read for all bibliophiles, cartographers and those who simply love beautiful books. Aimed at introducing readers to the breadth and diversity of the National Library of Australias collection of more than 600 000 maps of Australia, the countries of the world, the oceans, and the skies, this richly illustrated book showcases some of the finest items from the Maps Collection. These range from exquisite manuscript maps and editions from celebrated European cartographic publishers of the seventeenth century to the familiar contemporary products such as tourist maps which aid our daily lives. Readers will discover the stories behind these maps: the dangers of traversing uncharted territories; the intrigue associated with competition for economic and strategic ascendancy; technological changes in map making and dissemination; and, above all, changes in human knowledge and representation of the world around us.
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 | Albury - Page 128the Goulburn Riven In 1855, the Victorian and NSW governments introduced customs duties for goods landed at Albury and Wodonga from South Australia. ...more pages: 130 131 |
| Diemen - Page 46Bellin qualified his fancy by putting the following words on the map: 'I suppose that the land of Diemen can join the land of the Holy Ghost,more pages: 30 |
| Adelaide - Page 78for each death of a horse, it is possible to reconstruct the hazards the party faced as well as the public acclaim it received on reaching Adelaide. ...more pages: 74 102 131 |
More | Wagga Wagga - Page 77and an erratic riverboat service from Adelaide reached the river ports of Albury, Gundagai and Wagga Wagga during the wetter years. ...more pages: 126 128 |
| Melbourne - Page 112His first preference was to locate the future seat of government near Bombala, on a proposed railway to Sydney and Melbourne and with access to a ...more pages: 76 77 102 |
| Sydney - Page 112His first preference was to locate the future seat of government near Bombala, on a proposed railway to Sydney and Melbourne and with access to a ...more pages: 102 126 131 |
| Brisbane - Page 64a survey barque initially under the command of Commander John Clements Wickham, whose name later became associated with the settlement of Brisbane. ...more pages: 59 131 |
| Deniliquin - Page 77Tracks of early roads are marked, with many radiating from centres such as Goulburn, Armidale and Deniliquin. By 1868, squatting runs had taken up ...more pages: 76 131 |
| Hervey Bay - Page 53A month later Flinders reached Port Jackson, where he reprovisioned before continuing north to Hervey Bay and Port Curtis, sailing past the Endeavour ... |
| Jakarta - Page 36Seven of the 68 survivors navigated a small boat to Batavia (now Jakarta), but two Dutch East India Company (VOC) rescue ships found no trace of the ...more pages: 34 47 |
| Rio de Janeiro - Page 68Sailing from Rio de Janeiro to Port Jackson, he focused first on collecting native species at Woolloomooloo, before taking up a cottage at Parramatta. ...more pages: 34 |
| Cooma - Page 112Potential sites for the federal government included places as far apart as Dubbo, Armidale, Bathurst, Goulburn and Cooma in New South Wales; ...more pages: 96 |
| Queanbeyan - Page 113The Canberra site selected is further from the NSW town of Queanbeyan, as the map shows. The new city would be set mainly on the north bank of the ...more pages: 112 |
| Cape Town - Page 68As he did in his later travels, Cunningham scattered peach stones and seeds collected in England, Brazil and Cape Town in favourable locations for ...more pages: 53 54 |
| Geelong - Page 104depictions of the terrain and a drawing of William Buckley, an escaped convict who lived for 32 years among Aboriginal people near Geelong. ...more pages: 105 |
| Launceston - Page 104Born in Cambridge, England, John Wedge and his brother Edward arrived in Launceston in 1824. John found work as an assistant surveyor and, ...more pages: 52 118 |
| Goulburn - Page 130The first section of the Southern Railway, from Sydney to Goulburn, reached Granville to serve Parramatta and the Rosehill racecourse. ...more pages: 70 71 |
| Tennant Creek - Page 74Stuart continued north and named Tennant Creek on 6 June 1860. His most northerly point was Attack Creek, where a skirmish with Warramunga men forced ...more pages: 9 |
| Canberra - Page 113parliamentarians had rejected Canberra as a nomination only six months earlier (before Yass-Canberra was selected), it avoided reference to the name. ...more pages: 114 |
| Amsterdam - Page 36The disappearance caused VOC directors in Amsterdam to finance a thorough coastal survey eastward from Cape Town. ...more pages: 6 27 |
| Perth - Page 86Fifteen leases and their extensions bear the name of Hannan as a locality identity for goldmining companies registered in Perth. ...more pages: 37 118 |
| Beijing - Page 28Each hemisphere is drawn as a stereographic equatorial projection, with the prime meridian centred on Peking. Two circles surround both hemispheres: ...more pages: 26 |
| Bunbury - Page 78John attended the government school at Bunbury. before following his eldest brother William to Bishop Hale School, where he excelled in mathematics. ... |
| Keulen - Page 27In the workshops of Hondius, Blaeu, Jansson, Danckert, van Keulen and others, cartographers represented the rapid growth in geographical knowledge, ...more pages: 36 37 |
| Nuremberg - Page 18of what he thought were eastern islands of India when Schedel's Chronicle appeared, although news of his stunning voyage had yet to reach Nuremberg. ...more pages: 21 |
| Broken Hill - Page 80Exploitation of silver, lead and zinc ore at Broken Hill from the 1880s was matched during the following decade by yet another goldrush, ...more pages: 84 |
| Raymond Terrace - Page 118 |
| Mount Gambier - Page 12shellfish and cultural remains could be linked together as a chronology of events dating back to before an ash eruption of Mount Gambier. ... |
| Kempsey - Page 77The only road north of Kempsey heads inland to New England, suggesting that settlement of coastal land was limited to access from small ports. ... |
| Wodonga - Page 128the Goulburn Riven In 1855, the Victorian and NSW governments introduced customs duties for goods landed at Albury and Wodonga from South Australia. ... |
| London - Page 127
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| Simpson Bay - Page 57 |
| Albany - Page 10
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| Newfoundland, New Jersey - Page 42The 'Falls of Niagara' are shown, along with such European colonies as Canada, New France, Acadia, New Scotland, New England, Newfoundland, New Jersey ... |
| Suva - Page 132The most difficult part of the journey was the leg between Hawaii and Suva, the longest leg. |
| Cranbourne - Page 120of the new military one-mile topographic map sheets, the Cowes sheet, which covered Victoria's Westernport Bay from Cranbourne to Phillip Island. ... |
| Paris - Page 40which produced this large wall map of the world, was a product of the rise of Paris as Europe's largest city under Bourbon dynastic rule. ...more pages: 38 54 |
| Brasov - Page 20Nicknamed the Luther of Transylvania because of his Protestant leadership, Honter introduced the first printing press to Kronstadt (now Brasov). ... |
| Byron Bay - Page 131 |
| Pukapuka - Page 44Drake', St Peter's Island (found by Dampier) and Island of Dogs (named by de la Maire, and now Pukapuka). As part of the highlighted importance of ... |
| Singapore - Page 122surveys on behalf of the Indonesian Government over Sumatra and western New Guinea (Irian Jaya), the Moluccas and island groups south of Singapore, |
| Port Augusta - Page 78led by John and including Alexander and Tommy Windich, to link up with the Overland Telegraph Line, which ran from Port Augusta, in South Australia, ... |
| Portsmouth - Page 62Given the date on his Port Jackson chart, Raper probably made his copy after returning to Sydney Cove in February 1791. He arrived back in Portsmouth ...more pages: 60 |
| Armidale - Page 82His studies of possible goldfields in the Tamworth and Armidale districts during 1854 also predicted the tin discoveries of the 1870s. ... |
| Cambridge - Page 83Reverend Sedgwick in Cambridge, where today they form part of the Cambridge University collection. Sedgwick had determined the Cambrian geological age ...more pages: 82 |
| Jerusalem - Page 5The ethnocentric map places Jerusalem at its centre, with east at the top, the Garden of Eden in a circle at the edge of the world, and Great Britain ... |
| Augsburg - Page 22As a member of the influential Ortelius family of Augsburg, he travelled extensively on business throughout Europe with his Antwerp friend, ... |
| Liverpool - Page 77The track of the first railway from Sydney is shown by Owen to have reached Picton via Campbelltown by 1868, with u spur from Liverpool to Parramatta. ...more pages: 70 |
| Hobart - Page 58 |
| Murray Bridge - Page 129although none of the charts is signed The Budarick Brothers, registered as a company at Murray Bridge, plied the rivers from 1912 to 1922. ... |
| Lisbon - Page 26In 1580, Dutch access to the lucrative spice trade was curtailed when the harbour of Lisbon was closed to Dutch ships. ... |
| Edinburgh - Page 72 |
| Derby - Page 132Western Australian Airways, and for two years he flew supplies between Carnarvon and Derby. Retrenched in 1924, he bought a garage and petrol station ... |
| Canterbury - Page 135'Irish Town' (now Bankstown) held races at Canterbury and country folk might take the train to the Homebush livestock sales or Belmore 'Paddy s' ... |
| Newport - Page 135Black's of Manly ran a daily coach service to the Narrabeen Lakes (two shillings each way) and Newport (four shillings single, six shillings return). ... |
| Seville - Page 25Felipe then persuaded him to take up the post of librarian of the magnificent Escorial Royal Library. Montano retired to Seville in 1594, ... |
| Quebec - Page 50he applied plane-table mapping techniques borrowed from army surveyors to produce an unusually accurate chart vital to the British siege of Quebec. ... |
| Rockhampton - Page 67map;83.6 x 52.7 cm nla.map f263 . from Adelaide, and William Landsborough from Rockhampton, added considerably to recorded knowledge of the interior. ... |
| Poole - Page 134Compiled by Poole and Noble, of 250 George Street, Sydney, and published by 'the Proprietors of The Tourist Bureau' of 6 Bridge Street, ... |
| Buenos Aires - Page 101 |
| Rome - Page 25After publication of the polyglot atlas, Montano took it to Rome for the approval of Pope Gregory XIII. He was, however, denounced at the Inquisition ... |
| Philadelphia - Page 42Sylvania' (and the town of Philadelphia), Maryland, Carolina, Louisiana and Florida. All longitude was determined from London, and was to be used for ... |
| Chicago - Page 114The winning design, by architects Walter Burley Griffin and his wife, Marion, of Chicago, incorporated landscape elements of the US 'City Beautiful' ... |
| Plymouth - Page 50After loading a scientific team at Plymouth, the expedition left England on 26 August 1768. The vessel's navigational aids included a theodolite, ... |
| Le Havre - Page 54 |
| Vienna - Page 20Born in Kronstadt, the son of a wealthy tanner, it is believed that Honter studied astronomy at the university in Vienna from 1520 until the Turks ... |
| Genoa - Page 32At the age of 27, Thevenot returned to Paris to enter the service of the Royal Court, where he served as envoy to Genoa in 1647 and to Rome from 1653 ... |
| Paterson - Page 93 |
| Regensburg - Page 20He fled to Regensburg, where he assumed the non-Saxon name of Honter, and in 1530 he briefly joined the University of Krakow, a Catholic stronghold, ... |
| Boulder - Page 86Street layouts are shown for Great Boulder (now Boulder), a wage- workers' town on the Golden Mile, which was declared a townsite on 4 December 1896 ... |
| Halifax - Page 107Edward Stanley-Smith, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies; and Charles Bundle) or members of the House of Lords (Wakefield and Halifax). ... |
| New York - Page 42along with such European colonies as Canada, New France, Acadia, New Scotland, New England, Newfoundland, New Jersey, New York, 'Pen. ... |
| Palo Alto - Page 12NB Tindale Working in His Office at His Home in Palo Alto c.1987 Image reference AA338/6/ Biographical slide collection Courtesy South Australian ... |
| San Francisco - Page 133On 4 December 1934, Ulm and two companions, in the twin-engine Airspeed Stella Australis, disappeared between San Francisco and Hawaii on the first ... |
| Manila - Page 50771 Manuscripts Collection nla.ms-msl-s223v (including a copy of Torres' 1606 chart of the strait captured during the British sacking of Manila). ... |
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