Map State Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1838/3

Australia from surveys made by order of the British Government

Eastern portion of Australia by John Arrowsmith.
London, Pubd. 1st May 1838, by John Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Sq.

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:

Address changed to 10 Soho Sq.

COLONIES:

NEW SOUTH WALES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

REGIONS:

ARNHEM LAND, AUSTRALIA FELIX

COUNTIES:

TABLE. 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 ON COASTS

See East sheet, 1838/1 imprint, first state

REFERENCE:

Not in Tooley

NOTES

Northern Territory

In the 1838/2 state of the map Victoria appeared on the Coburg Peninsula. Coburg Peninsula changed to Coburg Pa (132°E)

New South Wales

The 1838/1 state of 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 in the 1838/1 state of the map. AUSTRALIA FELIX named by him.

CHANGES AND ADDITIONS

IMPRINT:

Address changed to 10 Soho Sq.
Otherwise map remains the same.

Key Dates

1606 - 1838
Situation date
May 1838
Map Publication Date

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Timeline

Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1838/1
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Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1840/1 (1838/4)
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1840/2 (1838/5)
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1841/1
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1841/2
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1842/1
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Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1846/1
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1847/1
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1847/2
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Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1849/1 (1848/2)
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1850/1
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1853/1
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1856/1
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1858/1
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1860/1 (1858/2)
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1861/1
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1863/1 (1862/1)
[Australia, East], 1884/1
Australia, East 1887

Institutional and Other Holdings

National Library of Australia Map Collection

  • Eastern portion of Australia [cartographic material] / by John Arrowsmith, 1838, MAP T 81/3; National Library of Australia Map Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

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

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Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1838/3
Title
Eastern Portion of Australia, East 1838/3
Type
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Repository
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