Our Maps collection includes around 1 million maps, from early European charts to current mapping of Australia, in print and digital form. All online maps are now freely available for download, in high resolution.
![Pink Japanese topographic map](/sites/default/files/styles/content_full_width/public/maps-5.jpg?h=90936c12&itok=zHe5OLQP)
Papua and Kumusi River 1:50,000 map series
![Chart indicates sailing directions for atolls and islands using sticks and shells](/sites/default/files/styles/content_full_width/public/maps-4.jpg?h=90936c12&itok=ddNUJj8A)
Stick chart of the Marshall Islands
![Close up of map showing northern Australia](/sites/default/files/styles/content_full_width/public/maps-3.jpg?h=90936c12&itok=78kZj4Vw)
Map of Oceania showing Ulimaroa [Australia] in full outline still joined to Tasmania
![Topographic map of Canberra region and Queanbeyan](/sites/default/files/styles/content_full_width/public/maps-2.jpg?h=90936c12&itok=s9WmD7BD)
Canberra in 1914 – no lake and few buildings
![Close up of map showing buildings, roads and vegetation](/sites/default/files/styles/content_full_width/public/maps-1.jpg?h=90936c12&itok=7iQHiUhZ)
Nazareth compiled drawn and printed by the Survey of Palestine, 1946
You can find:
- 200,000 post-1900 Australian topographic maps published by national and state mapping authorities
- property and subdivision maps for each Australian state and territory - useful for family history research
- thematic maps of land use, water and other resource management, geology and mining, transport, roads, planning and infrastructure, military mapping
- 800,000 aerial photographs of Australia, Papua New Guinea and Antarctica
- overseas maps, emphasising regions near Australia
- street directories, atlases, gazetteers and reference material
Highlights
- Norman B. Tindale’s iconic map showing the distribution of Aboriginal tribes of Australia
- Terra Australis - the earliest Dutch charting of the land that became Australia
- The Martini Atlas - the first European atlas of China
- British Admiralty charts of Australian waters, 1814-1861 - the circumnavigation of Australia
- Plan of Queanbeyan, County of Murray - plan of the town of Queanbeyan, showing the first Torrens Title purchases
- Real Estate Plans of New South Wales - part of the immense J. A. Ferguson collection of property maps
- Walter Burley Griffin - unravel the fledgling development of our nation’s capital with maps illustrating Griffin’s vision of Canberra
- First World War trench maps - Military maps of Gallipoli, Belgium and France, Egypt and Palestine
- By rail or road - an assortment of transport maps, 1850-1950
- Attack Pacific! - Japanese pictorial maps of Australia, Asia and the Pacific, 1940-45
- Australia 1:253,440 - detailed topographic maps prepared by Cartographic Section, Aust. Survey Corps, 1940-1960