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Title: Map of contour survey of the site for the Federal Capital of Australia [cartographic material].
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:9,600]. 800 feet to an inch. (E 149?08'/S 35?18').
Publisher: 1910.
Date: 1910
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 ms. map ; 65.2 x 65.9 cm.
Notes: Manuscript city planning map on base map reduced by photolithography from drawing on stone and printed by the Department of Lands, Sydney, New South Wales, from original plan by F.J. Broinowski by authority of the ... Minister for Lands, September, 1910. Shows proposed railway and road plan of Canberra. Relief shown by contours, spot heights and shading.

"Surveyed under instructions from the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Charles Robert Scrivener, District Surveyor".

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nic15; National Library's copy has vertical tear at centre bottom.
Subjects: Canberra (A.C.T.) -- Maps.
Canberra (A.C.T.) -- 1910 -- Maps.
Call Number: MAP NIC 15
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nic15