Lawrence FitzGerald map collection
- Bib ID:
- 1016374
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- FitzGerald, Lawrence, 1903-1988
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference. Not for loan.
- Scale:
- Scales differ (E 112°00'--E 154°00'/S 9°00'--S 44°00').
- Description:
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- [approximately 1944 - approximately 1980]
- 369 maps + 9 boxes.
- Series:
- Lawrence FitzGerald map collection.
- Summary:
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Topographic maps and world aeronautical charts of Australia collected by Lawrence FitzGerald. Relief shown by contours, shading, hachures and spot heights.
- Biography/History:
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Lawrence FitzGerald, OBE, was a Melbourne-born surveyor. He started his career in military mapping as a Corporal Topographer in the Australian Survey Corps, becoming a Commissioned Lieutenant in 1934. FitzGerald went on to lead the Geodetic Section and a Field Survey Company operating in the Middle East for the AIF. He held Director of Survey positions upon his return to Australia in 1942 until his retirement in 1960. In 1980 his book on the Australian Survey Corps in World War Two was published. He also pursued interests in European exploration of Australia, writing a book entitled Java la Grande: The Portuguese Discovery of Australia (1984), and researching coastal and inland journeys, annotating routes and other details on published Australian topographic maps. FitzGerald was an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Cartographers and inaugural Medallist of the Institution of Surveyors. Further biographical information at http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/491249
- Notes:
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- Title supplied by cataloguer.
- Scales of maps are 1:25 000 (N.S.W.), 1:50 000 (N.S.W.), 1:100 000 (VIC., N.S.W. & A.C.T.) 1:250 000 (Australia) and 1:1 000 000 (Australia).
- Boxes include articles on ancient maps, bibliographies, notes on early Australian discoveries, early Australian explorers, early Portuguese discovery, exploration of the Pacific, explorers maps, miscellaneous material, penetration of Torres Strait, Portugaliae monumenta cartographica, Readers Digest map series, pamphlets, material on Burke, Kennedy, Mitchell and Sturt.
- Some maps contain handwritten annotations by Lawrence FitzGerald of the following inland explorers: Ludwig Becker, Herman Beckler, Brigh, Robert O'Hara Burke, Allan Cunningham, Edward John Eyre, Ernest Giles, William Gosse, Augustus Charles Gregory, William Hilton Hovell, Hamilton Hume, Alfred William Howitt, Edmund Kennedy, Ludwig Leichardt, Thomas Mitchell, David Carnegie, Francis Lascelles Jardine, Charles Sturt, John McDouall Stuart, John Forrest, John McKinlay, John Joseph Oxley, William Landsborough, Peter Warburton, Edwin Welch, William Wills.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-791364266
- Related Material:
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- Papers of Lawrence FitzGerald; Located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript collection MS Acc11.186.
- Australia, with routes of major explorers; Located at; National Library of Australia Maps collection MAP G8961.P2.
- Australian Survey Corps plane table surveys; Located at; National Library of Australia Maps collection MAP RASC 1-60.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
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- List of individual maps available.
- Finding aid available in Special Collections Reading Room and online. Finding Aid reference no.: MFC 20.
- Subject:
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- FitzGerald, Lawrence, 1903-1988 -- Map collections
- FitzGerald, Lawrence, 1903-1988 -- Maps
- Burke, Robert O'Hara, 1821-1861 -- Travel -- Australia -- Maps
- Kennedy, Edmund Besley Court, 1818-1848 -- Travel -- Australia -- Maps
- Mitchell, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1855 -- Travel -- Australia -- Maps
- Sturt, Charles, 1795-1869 -- Travel -- Australia -- Maps
- Explorers -- Australia -- Maps
- Surveyors -- Australia -- Maps
- Aeronautical charts -- Australia
- Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps
- Australia -- Maps
- Genre/Form:
- Time Coverage:
- 1944-1980
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2030 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1980
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