Sketch map Wuvulu Island / prepared for the Chief Engineer, GHQ, SWPA, by Engineer Intelligence Section, GHQ, SWPA; compiled by 25th Photo Sql, 6th Photo Group U.S.Army; reproduced by OCE - GHQ
- Bib ID:
- 8050200
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area, cartographer
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale approximately 1:20,000 (E 142°49'13"--E 142°53'00"/S 1°42'56"--S 1°46'07").
- Description:
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- [Brisbane, Queensland] : [Office of the Chief Engineer], 1944
- 1 map : colour ; 43 x 44 cm
- Notes:
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- Map of Wuvulu Island, part of the Western Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea showing jeep tracks, villages, reefs, native gardens, coconut plantation, rain forests, swamps and boundaries of useable flat area. Depths shown by bathymetric soundings and isolines.
- Locality plan relative to New Guinea and Admiralty Islands on map face.
- Reliability diagram in margin.
- 'CAUTION: This map produced from aerial photographs. Due to lack of accurate ground control, distances scaled on this map may be at variance with actual ground distances'.
- Notes about vegetation and other information of military interest on map face.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1521418622
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1944
- Other authors/contributors:
- United States. Army. South West Pacific Area. Office of the Chief Engineer. Intelligence Section
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1994 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1944
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