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Creator: Ravenstein, F.
Title: General map of Australia and Tasmania or Van Diemen's Land [cartographic material] : shewing the British colonies as divided into counties, 1857 / drawn from the British & French Government surveys and other sources ; with the new electoral divisions of the Colony of Victoria ; drawn by F. Ravenstein.
Scale: [Scale 1:4,407,652]
Publisher: Edinburgh ; London ; Mayence [i.e. Mainz, Germany] : A. & C. Black ; Longman & Co. ; & Victor von Zabern, 1857 (Edinburgh : Lith. and printed in colours by Schenck & McFarlane)
Date: 1857
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; dissected and mounted on linen ; 93.2 x 121.3 cm., folded to cover 21 x 13 cm.
Notes: Map of Australia including Tasmania and New Zealand in the 1850s. The map features the names and boundaries of counties, as well as main towns, roads and railways, drainage, gold mining and the routes of some land explorers from Oxley to Eyre. Note that explorer Augustus Gregory's 1856 route from Gladstone up through Northern Australia to the Fitzroy Ranges is printed in blue. Eight detailed insets are also provided with Tasmania having two additional insets showing the electoral divisions and police divisions at that time. Decorative features include an elaborate title cartouche design. Relief is shown by hachures and some spot heights in feet.

Cartouche title.

Includes a consolidated indexed listing of counties by Australian state (Western Australia, South Australia, N.S.W., Port Curtis [prior to Queensland, which was not formalised as a state until 1859], and Victoria) referenced by number on the map.

Includes a key identifying the routes taken by particular explorers.

Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm931; National Library's copy at RM 931 (Copy 1) has black ink stains on the lower left of the map; also distributed/issued in cover: London : Edward Stanford, 6 Charing Cross, S.W., [186-?].
Subjects: Counties -- Australia -- Maps.
Counties -- New Zealand -- Maps.
Counties -- Australasia -- Maps.
Australia -- Administrative and political divisions -- Maps.
New Zealand -- Administrative and political divisions -- Maps.
Australasia -- Administrative and political divisions -- Maps.
Australia -- 1857 -- Maps.
New Zealand -- 1857 -- Maps.
Australasia -- 1857 -- Maps.
Call Number: MAP RM 931 (Copy 2)
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm931