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[Sketch of the district south east of Lake Eyre, South Australia] [cartographic material] [C 102] • Archival map/chart

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Summary

Manuscript map of area between Lake Torrens and Lake Eyre, South Australia. Includes detailed notes on natural features and shows Eyre's tracks.

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Physical description

Map
hand drawn
1 map : colour ; 73 x 59.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

1864

Subject

Eyre, Edward John, 1815-1901 -- Maps.
Eyre, Lake (S.A.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.
Eyre, Lake (S.A.) -- Maps.
South Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.

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General notes

Map hand-drawn. Ink and watercolour on paper. Signed G.W. Goyder.

Title supplied by cataloguer.

Goyder described and promoted the method that he used to produce this map to the South Australian Parliament in 1864: "This mode of survey has been so successfully adopted by me, and the information obtained whilst crossing from station to station for the purpose of observation and examining the country to obtain water for the supply of the party has been so ample, that I have been enabled to construct a map embracing 150,000 square miles of country during a two month's journey, which showed discrepancy of not more than a mile between the extreme stations, a hundred and twenty miles apart, when compared with the trigonometrical survey of the same locality, which, from the scarcity of water and other causes, required nine additional months to complete." South Australian Parliamentary Paper No. 36, 1864 'Settlement of Northern Territory' p. 14. Goyder also documented his methodology in the 'Field service handbook for Government surveyors', Government Printer, Adelaide, 1880, pp. 4-5. -- From research notes provided by Dr. Janis Sheldrick, 24 May, 2010.

Digitisation information

Date

29/10/2013

Format

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Resolution

7,653 x 9,251 pixels (70.8 MP)

Size

212.42 MB

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