mapping

Key to Queensland four mile map series, 1915. In June 1915, the Surveyor General presented his annual report on mapping and surveying activities in Queensland. This included a map of progress conducted over the last year on the four mile to an inch, or ‘four mile’ map series. This map included the location of stations used for calculating latitude and longitude and provided a table of town coordinates established by astronomical observation. The area covered by major triangulation was limited to south east Queensland. Queensland parliamentary papers, Vol 2, 1915-16

Map of Queensland engraved and printed for Pugh's Book Almanac by Thomas Ham & Co, Brisbane, 1862. The journeys of the explorers are marked and provide information for this map. The western boundary of Queensland appears as two green lines, with hand annotations revising the words 'present' and 'proposed'. A proposal to straighten the southern boundary at 30º taking in the Clarence, Grafton and Walgett is also shown. Collection of Queensland State Archives

Department of Mines, Mount Crosby, Ipswich Coalfield, 1972. Lease register. An example of a thematic map produced by the Department of Mines. Collection of the Queensland State Archives