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Title: Design for the capital city of Australia birds eye view. [Competitor no. 39] [cartographic material].
Scale: Scale not given (E 149p0s08'/S 35p0s18')
Publisher: [1912]
Date: 1912
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 ms. map : col., 62 x 97 cm.
Notes: Competitor 39 is unknown; no sealed envelope including the name was received by the Competition.

Handcoloured ms. plan by competitor 39, for Canberra shows a birds eye view of the proposed city, south of the river.

Associated maps: Sheet 1, [ Federal Capital Designs Competition plan competitor no 39] : [on base map] map of contour survey of the site for the Federal Capital of Australia ; Sheet 2, Plan for the Capital City of the Commonwealth of Australia ; Sheet 3, Sections or scale of 400 feet to 1 inch ; Sheet 4 and 5, Central Avenue from Camphill northwards.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-gmod47
Subjects: Federal Capital Design Competition, (1911-1925) -- Aerial views.
City planning -- Australian Capital Territory -- Aerial views.
Australia -- Capital and capitol -- Aerial views.
Canberra (A.C.T.) -- Historical geography -- Aerial views.
Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- 1912.
Call Number: MAP G8984.C3S1 FCDC no. 39 1912
Amicus Number: 11134036
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-gmod47