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Title: New South Wales, Australia, 1828 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2012-02
  • Coverage: 1828

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Colony of New South Wales, by Sidney Hall. It was published by Published by Longman Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Paternoster Row in April 1828. Scale [ca. 1:2,550,000].The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Miller Cylindrical projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes notes and inset: Australia.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Subjects

  • Australia
  • State of New South Wales
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • Landforms
  • Bodies of water
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (142.706062, 155.534329, -25.223428, -38.947764)
  • Geometry: BBOX (142.706062, 155.534329, -25.223428, -38.947764)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Hall, Sidney, fl. 1823-1860., Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. New South Wales, Australia, 1828 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g8970-1828-h3

Format

GeoTIFF