MAPS AUSTRALIA SA

Detailed chart of Port Adelaide and surrounds with detailed soundings from maritime surveys conducted by Commander J. Hutchinson in 1868 with additions and corrections to 1913. The map covers the coast from Port Gawler to Glenelg. There are manuscript highlights which have been added.
Scarce.

After having rejected Port Lincoln and Kingscote as possible sites, Light returned to Holdfast Bay and noted in his journal on 29 December 1836: ‘Employed nearly all day examining the plain, and looking out for the best situation for the capital. I was delighted with the appearance of the country, and the supply of fresh water we were certain of possessing; at four p.m., I had the pleasure of seeing the Governor and Mr Fisher, and we agreed on going the following day to look at the place I had selected for the capital.

The next day, Light and Governor Hindmarsh inspected the site and although Hindmarsh liked what he saw he stated that it was too far from the harbour. They agreed to move the location by one and a half miles lower down the bank of the river but after re-examining the area the following day, Light noticed previous evidence of the river having breached its banks. Light wrote that from 3-11 January 1837, ‘I was employed in looking repeatedly over the ground, and devising in my own mind the best method of laying out the town according to the course of the river, and the nature of the ground; this being fixed, I commenced with Mr Kingston and Mr Neale only … It may be asked then, “Why choose it?” I answer, “Because it was on a beautiful and gently rising ground, and formed altogether a better connection with the river than any other place”’.

Although Light had been given total autonomy by the Commissioners in selecting the site, he was being undermined by Hindmarsh and his supporters, who saw the distance to the sea as unworkable. In response to correspondence from Hindmarsh, Light called a public meeting to discuss and vote on the matter. The meeting took place in Edward Stephens’s tent at Holdfast Bay, on the 10 February 1837. The subsequent vote found was in favour of Light’s selection and he then proceeded to divide the town into 1000 acre allotments as instructed by the Commissioners.

Light resigned from his position in 1838, after being instructed to use faster and less accurate surveying methods for the country surveys. His health soon deteriorated and he died of tuberculosis at the age of fifty-three on 6 October 1839.

The most decorative map of South Australia, produced at the time of the gold rush and copper mining boom. From the Illustrated Atlas, the maps by John Tallis, decorative border surrounds, vignettes depicting views of Adelaide, dingo, parrot and aborigines.

Tooley 1231

von A Petermann. Shows route of John McDouall Stuart, 1859 & 1860 to the west of Lake Eyre. Stuart's April-July 1859 route shown in red, his November-January 1860 route shown in green. Place names in English, notes on topography in German
From Petermanns Geographische Mittheilungen.

Stuart led his first expedition in 1858, departing from the Chambers' station at Oratunga on 14 May 1858. He was accompanied by just two men, one of whom was an Aboriginal, and with five horses and six weeks provisions. They rounded the southern end of Lake Torrens travelling up its western side and at its northern tip turned north-west. Stuart discovered a large tree lined creek which he named Chambers Creek. Stuart would use this as an advance depot for all of his expeditions. He continued in a north-westerly direction and travelled as far as today's Coober Pedy. The country was terrible - reminding Stuart of Sturt's Stony Desert, and extremely difficult for the horses. He turned back, heading south to Denial Bay which was reached on 17 August, and then along the coast to Gibson's Station at Streaky Bay. After resting here for sometime Stuart returned to Mount Arden.

Stuart set out on his second expedition 2 April 1859. On this expedition a number of mound springs were discovered. These would provide permanent water sources for further explorations and pastoralists. Stuart travelled as far north as 27° latitude, discovering the Neales River flowing into Lake Eyre North and he considered the country as good as that adjacent to Chambers Creek. Some days later he saw some distance to the north-east a 'large dark-coloured hill' which he named after Dr JH Browne, from Sturt's expedition of 1844. At this point he decided to return and reached Glen's Station on 3 July.

William Kekwick joined Stuart for the first time on the third expedition, and would remain with him for all of the remaining journeys. Again financed by the Chambers Brothers, Stuart was this time better equipped for surveying and this enabled the creation of more accurate maps. They were provisioned for three months and had 12 horses. They again travelled to Chambers Creek, discovering more springs. The expedition continued north, surveying as it went. At length in late December Stuart decided to return as provisions were running low. The expedition had reached further north into South Australia than anyone had previously. Stuart remained at Chambers Creek while Kekwick returned to Chambers' Station at Moolooloo with the reports of the land surveyed and to seek more men. Stuart was already planning the fourth journey.

Map showing expedition route of Moravian missionary Gottlieb Walder in Cooper Creek region, South Australia. In 1864 two Moravian Brothers, Gottlieb Walder and Heinrich Meissel, arrived from Germany to establish a mission on the Cooper's Creek. This was partly in gratitude to the Aboriginal people of the area who had cared for John King, a survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition in 1861. After some delay, the missionaries left Adelaide in 1866 and arrived at Kopperamanna six months later, only to find that Lutheran missionaries had already established another mission nearby.

Also shows expedition routes of Sturt (1845), Goyder (1857), Freeling (1857), Jacob (1857), McKInley (1861), Howitt (1862).

Shows the Coorung from Mount Murray to Kingston and east to Border Town.

British cartographer and topographer, born in 1817 and died in 1876. He compiled many maps for a number cartographers including, A & C Black, Blackie & Son, Routledge & Philips.

Area from Lake Gardiner in the west to New South Wales border in the east and form the tip of Lake Torrens to near Port Pirie.

Area from West Australian border in the west to Denial Bay in the east and Leisler Hills in the north and the Great Australian Bight in the south.

Scarce county map of South Australia from the first atlas devoted to the continent issued in Australia. In 1837 Sands came to Sydney for health reasons and with stationery valued at £500 setting up business in George Street. In 1848 he took over a shop front next to the General Post Office. By 1870 as stationers, booksellers, printers and account book manufacturers the firm was one of the largest of its kind in Australia and in that year won prizes for printing and book production at the Intercolonial Exhibition in Sydney.

Area extending from Stanley Tableland in the north to Mount Ernest in the south and to Lake Eyre in the east.