Discover the earliest Dutch charting of Terra Australis, unravel the fledgling development of our nation’s capital with maps illustrating Walter Burley Griffin’s vision of Canberra or take a look at the Atlas Coelestis, the largest star atlas ever published.
Explore our digitised maps by viewing the selection showcased below or browse through all digitised Maps in our catalogue. Over 7225 items from the Map Collection are now accessible online. To review our progress read Maps digitisation - progress so far and Digitisation - overview.
Michael Mercator America suie India Nova 1695
D. MacDonald Railway postal & telegraph map of New South Wales 1886
Tableau camparatif des principales montages... 182-?
Smith Evans The Crystal Palace Game 1851
Johannes van Loon Typus seleno graphicus lunae phases... 166-?
T.W. Edgeworth David Geological map of the Commonwealth of Australia 1931
Louis de Freycinet Plan du Port du Roi George 1812
Hartmann Schedel World map - Secunda etas mundi 1493
C. & J. Greenwood Map of the County of Somerset 1829
Abraham Ortelius Indiae orientalis insvlarvmqve adiacientivm typvs 1570
Walter Burley Griffin Canberra plan of city and environs 1918
R.T. Forsyth The Aussies estate, Willoughby 1918
Sir Robert Dudley Carta particolare della costa Australe scoperta dall'Olandesi 1647
Arabian world map 12th Century
Hendrick Doncker De zee-atlas ofte water-waereld 1659
Higinbotham & Robinson Yachting and excursion map of Port Phillip 1886
W.F.P. City of Sydney 1888
Published a year after the Gallipoli landings for the home front audience, this map shows the landing sites and positions reached by the ANZAC troops during the eight month campaign of 1915. Profits from the one shilling map were to be handed to War Funds. It shows the difficult terrain, as the ground climbs over 200 metres within just 1 kilometre from the beach.