Hundred of Hughes, from 17 to 31 m. S. of Fort Point [cartographic material] / Frazer S. Crawford, photo-lithographer
- Bib ID:
- 1307578
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- South Australia. Surveyor-General's Office
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. MAP RM 3057/13a (Copy 1)
- Scale:
- Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (E 130⁰40'--E 130⁰50'/S 12⁰40'--S 12⁰55')
- Description:
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- Adelaide : Surveyor-General's Office, 1870
- 1 map ; 19 x 14 cm.
- Series:
- Northern Territory hundred maps
- Biography/History:
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The Hundred of Hughes lies between the Hundreds of Milne and Cavenagh and contains the range which forms the headwaters of the Rivers Charlotte and Annie. This Hundred was named in 1871 after W.W. Hughes (1803-1887), a prominent SA businessman. Walter Watson Hughes was born in Pittenween, a village in Fife, Scotland on 22 August, 1803 and educated at Crail. He went to sea to the Arctic and later as Chief mate of a sailing vessel to calcutta. He purchased a brig called the Hero sailing between China and Calcutta and first went to South Australia in 1842. He settled down there to pastoral pursuits to the east of Adelaide. To him belongs the honour of discovering and developing the copper mines of Moonta and Wallaroo found on the Hughes and Duncan property in 1859-61. Whilst the mariner could not be persuaded into State politics, he did serve in the Adelaide City Council. His donation of $40,000 in 1872 for the purposes of establishing a University was remembered by people of the Colony of that time. He was knighted, settled in Bayswater, London and died at age 83 in Chertsey, Surrey in 1887.
- Notes:
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- Cadastral map of the Hundred of Hughes, Northern Territory, showing numbered allotments and including topographic detail. The region shown is apparently the Hundred of Hughes which was not officially named until a year later in 1871. Relief shown by hachures.
- "April 1870"
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232165225
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1870
- Other authors/contributors:
- Crawford, Frazer S. (Frazer Smith), -1890
- Copyright:
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- Since 1920 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1870
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