Eastern portion of Australia by John Arrowsmith
London, Pubd. 1st May 1838, by John Arrowsmith, 35 Essex Street, Strand.

EAST SHEET Extent E 130°to E 154°

OVERLAP

The sheets are designed to be joined along E 134°.The overlap of east and west sheets occurs from longitude E 130°- E 137°. Information in the area E 130° to E 134° is not updated on the east sheet indicating that the cartographer had designed the map in two sheets to be joined.

INSETS:

Torres Strait (upper right), Van Diemens Land (lower right)

Description

Shows

IMPRINT:

On some issues Arrowsmith's imprint has been pasted over with a label reading G. Cruchley, Map Seller & publisher, 81 Fleet Street from 38 Ludgate Street London. [n.d.] See MAP RM 782B, National Library of Australia Map Collection

COLONIES:

NEW SOUTH WALES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

REGIONS:

ARNHEM LAND, AUSTRALIA FELIX

TABLE: COUNTIES:

The nineteen counties in New South Wales are delineated and numbered on the map and listed in a marginal table.

BOUNDARIES:

South Australia extends from 26°S to the south coast and from 132°E to 141°E.

NOTES AROUND THE COASTS

Disc'd. by Comrs. Of Pera and Arnhem in 1623. (Arnhem Land)
S & W coast disc'd by Tasman 1644 (Gulf of Carpentaria)
Discd. By Comr. Of the ship Pera 1623. (Cape York, south-west coast)
Disc'd by the Comr. Of the ship Duyfken in 1606 being the first authenticated discovery of any part of the Great South Land (Cape York, north-west coast)
Coastline from Cape Howe to Cape York disc'd. by Cook 1770 (East coast of Australia)
Disc'd by Bass in 1798 (South-east Victorian coast)
Disc'd by Grant in HMS Nelson 1800 (W. coast of Victoria)
Disc'd by Baudin in the Geographe 1802 (South Australia, east coast)
Disc'd by Flinders in HMS Investigator 1802. (South Australia, Spencer Gulf and waters east and west)

REFERENCE:

Not in Tooley

NOTES

New South Wales

The map shows the principal river systems of the Murray, Murrumbidgee, Lachlan and the Darling, Bogan, Macquarie, Namoi, Gwydir, Dumaresq and Condamine. There are notes on Mitchell's furthest north and south on the Darling 1832, Sturt and Hume's farthest north on the Darling, March 1829, and Oxley's furthest west on the Lachlan 1817. Sturt's Depot is shown on the Murrumbidgee from whence he descended the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers to the sea in 36 days and returned in 40 days. Dixon's furthest west 1833 (just west of the Bogan R.) and the spot where Richard Cunningham was killed (just west of the Bogan R.) also marked.

Victoria

T. L. Mitchell's expeditions from Sydney to western Victoria (Glenelg R.) appear. AUSTRALIA FELIX named by him.

Key Dates

1606 - 1837

Situation date

May 1838

Map Publication Date

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Institutional and Other Holdings

Bodleian Library

• Eastern portion of Australia, 800.11 t.1 (25); Bodleian Library. Details
• The London Atlas of Universal Geography., 1838, 2027 a.62; Bodleian Library. Details

British Library Map Library

• Australia, from surveys made by order of the British Government ... By John Arrowsmith. [Scale,] English miles ... 200[= 50 mm], 1838, Maps 90050.(61.); British Library Map Library. Details

Mitchell Map Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Australia from surveys made by order of the British Government [cartographic material] : combined with those of D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet &c. &c. / by John Arrowsmith, 1838., Z/MC 804/1838/1; Mitchell Map Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Map Collection

• Australia from surveys made by order of the British Government [cartographic material] : combined with those of D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet &c. &c. / by John Arrowsmith, MAP RM 782B; National Library of Australia Map Collection. Details
• Australia from surveys made by order of the British Government [cartographic material] : combined with those of D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet &c. &c. / by John Arrowsmith, 1838, MAP RM 782C; National Library of Australia Map Collection. Details
• Australia from surveys made by order of the British Government [cartographic material] : combined with those of D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet &c. &c. / by John Arrowsmith, 1838, MAP RM 782A; National Library of Australia Map Collection. Details
• Eastern portion of Australia [cartographic material] / by John Arrowsmith, 1838, MAP RM 920; National Library of Australia Map Collection. Details

Royal Geographical Society

• Eastern portion of Australia by John Arrowsmith., 1838, mr Australia Div.19; Royal Geographical Society. Details

Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc.

• Australia from surveys made by order of the British Government combined with those of D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet &c. &c. [cartographic material] / by John Arrowsmith, 1838, RGS Australiana Coll. (J) 912.94 A779; Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc. Details

State Library of South Australia

• Australia from surveys made by order of the British Government combined with those of D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet &c. &c. [cartographic material] / by John Arrowsmith, 1838, C 900; State Library of South Australia. Details

State Library of Victoria, Rare Books

• Australia [Map] from surveys made by order of the British Government combined with those of d'Entrecastcaux, Bundin, Freycinet / John Arrowsmith. (sic), RARELT 912.94 Ar6; State Library of Victoria, Rare Books. Details

Published resources

Books

• Tooley, Ronald Vere, The mapping of Australia and Antarctica, Holland Press, London, 1985, 649 pp. Details