Queensland showing subdivision of sheets, 1927

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Australia
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1 January 1927

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2 July 2010
Brisbane
Queensland Parliamentary Papers
Queensland mapping since 1900
Queensland showing subdivision of sheets, Surveyor General's Report, 1927. This map illustrates the significant change in 1927 to the systematic mapping of Queensland.

Geological survey of Queensland, 1928-29

QLD
Australia
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1 January 1928

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QLD
Australia
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1:2,500,000
Geological survey of Queensland
Map 'The Geological survey of Queensland', prepared by Benjamin Dunstan 1928-29, from the Edgeworth David Collection in the National Library of Australia. It was based on the 1905 Geological Sketch map of Queensland. It was probably sent by Dunstan to Edgeworth David. Courtesy, National Library of Australia

Preliminary plot of Queensland section of Geological map of the Commonwealth of Australia

QLD
Australia
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1 January 1928

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QLD
Australia
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2 July 2010
1:3,000,000
Geological survey of Queensland

This hand-drawn and hand-painted map from the Edgeworth David collection in the National Library of Australia, is a Preliminary plot of Queensland section of Geological map of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1928-29. It is probably a tracing done by Edgeworth David and sent to Queensland for correction. He could safely send this copy to Queensland without any fear of something happening to his original compilation. Courtesy National Library of Australia

Geological survey of Queensland

The 1928-29 map ‘Preliminary plot of Queensland section of Geological map of the Commonwealth of Australia’ is a good illustration of the state of the technology of map creation at the time that it

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Mapping a new colony, 1860-80

During the late 1850s, pastoralists in New South Wales were pushing the boundaries of settlement ever northward throughout what would become the new colony of Queensland.

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Augustus Gregory with staff of the Surveyor General’s Office, Queensland

Augustus Gregory (centre in white) with staff of the Surveyor-General’s Office, 1869. Back row T.S.Bailey, senior draftsman; R.Spence, draftsman; Edward James Bennett, chief draftsman; Joseph Bourne, draftsman; Spicer Galland Briggs, draftsman; T.W.Poulden, clerk; C.D.Gorton, clerk; C.C. Innes, clerk. Middle row: Major Edward Lewis Burrows, Deputy Surveyor-General; A.C.Gregory, Surveyor-General; G.Huntly, senior clerk. Front row: J.Murphy, messenger; Patrick J. O’Regan, draftsman; H.W. Fox, lithographic draftsman; William Scarr, senior draftsman; J.French, draftsman; A.R. Wettenhall, accountant; A.J. Sullivan, clerk. Missing from the group is office keeper Caroline Cuddihy. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland 
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