- Bib ID:
- 6449732
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute. Hydrography Commission
- Scale:
- Scale approximately 1:7,000,000 (E 113°00'--E 165°00'/S 7°00'--S 44°00').
- Description:
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- [Sydney] : [Hydrography Commission of the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute], [2014]
- 1 map : colour ; 66 x 95 cm, on sheet 84 x 119 cm
- Notes:
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- Poster commemorating the 200th anniversary of Captain Matthew Flinders death and the publishing of his map that first stated the name “Australia’ in 1814. Reproduction of Flinders map "General chart of Terra Australis or Australia" is at centre. Relief shown by bathymetric soundings.
- Chart shows tracks of the Investigator, Cumberland and Porpoise, with appropriate dates.
- Includes colour portraits and colour illustrations around border of map of Flinders, Biddy Salamander, Trim (Flinders' cat), H.M.S. Investigator, the sword and naval coat or sash badge belonging to Flinders, Sydney Harbour, entrance of Endeavour River, Twofold Bay, NSW, Wooding Place in Adventure Bay, native animals, various sea shells and sealife.
- Subject:
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- Time Coverage:
- 1798-1803
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Also Titled:
- Title on map: General chart of Terra Australis or Australia : showing the parts explored between 1798 and 1803 by M. Flinders Commr. of H.M.S. Investigator
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1814
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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