Plan of Port Moresby and the road to the Lolokie River: New Giunea

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This map focuses on the capital city of British New Guinea, Port Moresby, and the road heading north-east from the city to the Laloki River. Along the road, there are descriptions of the terrain (‘Open flat fairly grasses timbered with bastard Gum’).

Details
Date
1887
Printer/Publisher
Surveyor General's Office, Brisbane; Intelligence Division, War Office
Publication Location
Brisbane
Attributes

Compass Rose

Contour Lines/Elevation

Scale

Insets

Coat of Arms

Features

Cemetery/Columbarium

Missionary Building

Church

Kampong/Village

Residential Area

Port

Road

River

Path

Civic/Metropolitan Border

Mountain/Volcano

Mangrove

Wetlands

Library Catalogue

Title
Plan of Port Moresby and the road to the Lolokie River [cartographic material].
Publication Date
1887
Map Data
Scale 1:31,680.
Format
1 map
Extent
1 scans.
Additional Information
Surveyor General's Office, Brisbane
Publisher Details
[S.l.] : Surveyor General's Office, Brisbane
Subjects
Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) -- Maps; Maps
Shelfmark
D44:8 (3)
Permalink
http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/1vrc72e/oxfaleph020233645
Aleph System Number
20233645
Miscellaneous Notes

General Note: Hachures: Heights in feet: Roads: Tracks.
Copy-specific Notes

Open note in new window Notes for Bodleian Library: D44:8 (3) Provenance note: Donation.

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