Format:
1 Karte auf 4 Blättern
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farbig
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je Blatt 58 x 46 cm
Edition:
2nd ed.
Content:
Insets Colony of Victoria. Scale [1:2,896,457] --Port Jackson & Botany Bay with the environs of Sydney. Scale [1:337,920] --Mount Alexander gold region. Scale [1:217,234] --Tasmania or Van Dieman's Land [including 2 insets]. Scale [1:2,027,520] --Port Phillip with Melbourne. Scale [1:724,114] --Sketch map to show the principal commercial routes to Australia. [Scale ca. 1:130,000,000] --Norfolk Island. Scale [1:126,720] --New Zealand. Scale [1:5,068,800].
Note:
Map of Australia including Tasmania and New Zealand in the 1850s. The map features the names and boundaries of counties, as well as main towns, roads and railways, drainage, gold mining and the routes of some land explorers from Oxley to Eyre. Note that explorer Augustus Gregory's 1856 route from Gladstone up through Northern Australia to the Fitzroy Ranges is printed in blue. Eight detailed insets are also provided with Tasmania having two additional insets showing the electoral divisions and police divisions at that time. Decorative features include an elaborate title cartouche design. Relief is shown by hachures and some spot heights in feet
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Cartouche title
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Includes a consolidated indexed listing of counties by Australian state (Western Australia, South Australia, N.S.W., Port Curtis [prior to Queensland, which was not formalised as a state until 1859], and Victoria) referenced by number on the map
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Includes a key identifying the routes taken by particular explorers
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Vorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: Edinburgh : Lith. and printed in colours by Schenck & McFarlane
Language:
English
Keywords:
Karte
Author information:
Ravenstein, Ernst Georg 1834-1913
