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Creator: Victoria. Dept. of Crown Lands and Survey.
Title: Continental Australia [cartographic material] from the most recent information & materials supplied by the survey departments of the several colonies / William Slight, engr.
Scale: Scale [1:3,168,000]. 50 statute miles to one inch.
Publisher: Melbourne : Constructed & engraved at the Dept. of Lands & Survey under the direction of Alexder. Black Surveyor General of Victoria, The Honble. John L. Dow, M.P., Commissioner of Lands & Survey, May 1888.
Date: 1888
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 map on 4 sheets : col., mounted on linen ; 136.5 x 169.8 cm., each 79.4 x 90.6 cm. or smaller.
Notes: Map of Australia showing towns, railways, telegraph lines, drainage, and featuring the time-dated routes of explorers by land from J. Oxley in 1817 to W.H. Cornish in 1880. Annotations on vegetation and water in the interior are also given. Relief is shown by spot heights.

Table at lower left of map entitled: Routes of exploration laid down on map.

Table at lower right of map entitled: Statistics.

Prime meridian: Greenwich.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm668
Subjects: Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.
Australia -- 1888 -- Maps.
Call Number: MAP RM 668
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm668