Percy Isles to Whitsunday Island, 1803-1951

Australia
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1 January 1951
2 December 2010
2 December 2010

Location

Australia
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2 December 2010
London
The Admiralty

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Islands
Perceptions
Perceptions: how people understand the landscape

Percy Isles to Whitsunday Island, 1803-1951. This map published by the Admiralty in 1951 shows the accumulation of surveys and the origin of the coastal charts. Information is taken from a joint Admiralty & Colonial Survey 1873-79, with additions from Captains Flinders, King, Blackwood, Owen Stanley, Yule, Dayman, Denham, Nares and Maclear 1803-81, Edgell, Bennett and Henderson 1926-29, and RAAF aerial reconnaissance 1926. Corrections were made in 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1951. A note on the map states 'The delimitation of the outer edge of the Barrier Reef has not been satisfactorily established'. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Cleveland Bay, mariner's survey, 1886

Cleveland Bay, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1886
2 December 2010
2 December 2010

Location

Cleveland Bay, QLD
Australia
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2 December 2010
London
The Admiralty

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Pathways
Pathways: how things move through the landscape and where they are made

Cleveland Bay, surveyed by Lieutenant G.E. Richards, RN, HMS Paluma, 1892. The Admiralty, London, 1892. This map shows tidal signals, depth soundings and tide information for Townsville and Magnetic Island. Also noted are the presence of buoys, coral, gravel, mud, rock, sand, shells and weed. Such detailed maps, sold by the Admiralty, were essential for mariners moving along the coast of Australia and entering Townsville Harbour. Collection of the National Library of Australia

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