New South Wales

Goldfields, stock routes and explorers' paths into the interior make these antique maps of New South Wales a vivid record of...

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Goldfields, stock routes and explorers' paths into the interior make these antique maps of New South Wales a vivid record of a colony taking shape. Colonial and later state sheets mark railways, telegraph lines and water supplies, with later editions showing communications growing denser. Closer surveys cover districts such as Hunter and Camden, while charts follow the coast from Sydney towards Jervis Bay. Some sheets set the colony beside Victoria, Queensland or eastern Australia as a whole, and the prints add settler-era and Aboriginal subjects, including early nineteenth-century illustrations of local activities.

Goldfields, stock routes and explorers' paths into the interior make these antique maps of New South Wales a vivid record of a colony taking shape. Colonial and later state sheets mark railways, telegraph lines and water supplies, with later editions showing communications growing denser. Closer surveys cover districts such as Hunter and Camden, while charts follow the coast from Sydney towards Jervis Bay. Some sheets set the colony beside Victoria, Queensland or eastern Australia as a whole, and the prints add settler-era and Aboriginal subjects, including early nineteenth-century illustrations of local activities.

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