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Newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Map Society (ANZMapS), published by

The Australian & New Zealand Map Society, Incorporated (Melbourne, Victoria). Issue # 115, July 2013

Newsletter 115, July 2013

Australian & New Zealand Map Society

www.anzmaps.org

ISSN 1837-3372

In this issue:

Pictures from the ANZMapS Conference Melbourne 2013 / Report from the ANZMapS field trip / New acquisition from the National Library of Australia / News of an upcoming exhibition at the National Library of Australia / News from the State Library of New South Wales / News from the Australasian Hydrographic Society / Coming events, recent publications and other items of interest / Membership renewal reminder / How to subscribe to the member e-mail list

Pictures from the ANZMapS Conference, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, April 9-12, 2013

President of the Australia & New Zealand Map Society, Maggie Patton, with keynote speaker, Professor Peter Stanley, author of many Australian military social history books, including Tarakan: an Australian Tragedy, Quinn’s Post, Anzac, Gallipoli, Invading Australia, A Stout Pair of Boots, and Digger Smith and Australia’s Great War. His Bad Characters was jointly awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History in 2011. His next book will be Black Saturday at Steels Creek, on the 2009 Victorian bushfires.

(Photo: Jennifer Sheehan)

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Conference delegates enjoying the display of maps & plans of Melbourne and the surrounding region, from the collection of the SLV, whilst Judith Scurfield (Map Librarian, SLV) shares her knowledge about them.

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Conference dinner at the William Angliss Institute: (left) Animated conversation at table 3; (right) Maggie Patton (ANZMapS President) enjoys a coffee with Victor and Dorothy Prescott.

(left) Conference delegates enjoy looking at photographs of past Australian Map Circle events; Karen Craw (past Secretary) and Julie Senior (current Secretary) tackle the jigsaw puzzle of Melbourne between conference sessions.

(Photos: J.Senior & Les Isdale)

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Report on the ANZMapS Conference field trip 2013. “Landscapes and mapping: the Werribee Plains and Uplands to the West and North of Melbourne”, by Karen Craw After the concentration required for the sessions, and the lovely diner, it is always nice to end the conference with a field

trip.

A keen busload of members and partners assembled outside Melbourne’s old gaol on Friday the 12th

April for the field trip

led by Bernie Joyce and Bill Birch. Bernie and Bill, along with Greg Eccleston, David Jones and Judith Scurfield, had compiled

a comprehensive field guide complete with maps and illustrations to help enlighten us.

We motored SW along the M1 towards the You Yang’s and our first stop, the Mt Rothwell Biodiversity Interpretation Centre

http://www.mtrothwell.com.au/. This fenced 400 hectare property is the largest predator free ecosystem in Victoria. It is

exclusively managed for the conservation of some of Australia’s most threatened faunal species, including the Eastern

Barred Bandicoot, Brush tailed Rock Wallaby and Eastern Quoll. We went for a walk amongst the granite outcrops of Mt

Rothwell to view the Anakie volcanoes to the West, the You Yang domes to the South, the replica derelict farmhouse used

in the filming of “Ned Kelly”, and shy wildlife to be spied in this protected enclave.

After visiting the Quoll enclosure and seeing a couple of these special creatures up close we had a cup of tea at the bus and

were on our way to the Anakie Gorge picnic area. https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=anakie+gorge+picnic+area&ie=utf-

8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a. Upon arrival we walked through Stony Creek Gorge with

many distinctive Rowsley fault features. A pipeline carrying water from Lower Stony Creek Reservoir, constructed in the

1870s to service Geelong, could be seen in places. A wonderfully fresh lunch was delivered to our lunch spot by the

Eccleston’s daughter, complete with birthday cake for Greg’s wife, but enjoyed by all.

We continued on through the Rowlsey fault zone to the right and volcanic features to the left, then ascended the fault

scarp to the plateau, the Brisbane Ranges National Park and the Duridwarra reservoirs and Mt Wallace Volcano before a

steep descent into the Parwan Valley. We viewed the incised valley walls and White Elephant Hills with fossil rich white clay

pits.

Coal mining country preceded Bacchus Marsh. We continue along the C704 on a lava capped plateau with streams cutting

deep valleys and continued past Mt Bullengarook.

Afternoon tea stop at the Gardiner Reserve in Gisborne provided an enjoyable leg stretch and a cuppa before the route

took us past Mt Gisborne and Mt Aitken volcanoes and on to the Calder Highway and our final stop at Organ Pipes National

Park. http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/organ-pipes-national-park. From the visitor’s centre we were able to walk

down to the spectacular basalt lava flow features, including columnar jointing, tessellated pavement and a large rosette

before the gates to the park closed at 4.30pm. A suitably spectacular finale to an enjoyable and well organised field trip and

conference.

Karen Craw Hocken Library, University of Otago

http://www.mtrothwell.com.au/

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=anakie+gorge+picnic+area&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=anakie+gorge+picnic+area&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/organ-pipes-national-park

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New acquisition, National Library of Australia

The National Library has acquired the Joan Blaeu wall map, Archipelagus Orientalis, sive Asiaticus (Eastern or Asian archipelago), showing ‘Hollandia Nova, detecta 1644.’ The map, over 1.5 metres in width, is the first large scale map of New Holland, and is one of four complete examples known to exist. Blaeu produced the copper plates for limited release in 1659, for the first time including details of all known Dutch discoveries in Australian waters up to and including the two voyages of Abel Tasman. This state of the map was printed in 1663, and this example was in the collection of the antique dealer Pelle Thulin of Amsterdam, in the 1950s. It was identified in 2010, and is complete with original roller mounts. Archipelagus Orientalis provides the most complete account of Dutch charting of Australia, and was the template for all maps of New Holland to follow. Details of interest include the sighting of Tasmania by the crew of the Zeehaen, and first use on maps of the Dutch names for Australia (‘Nieuw Hollant’) and New Zealand (‘Nieuw Zelandt’). Like most maps of this kind, Archipelagus Orientalis is extensively damaged, and will require extensive conservation work prior to display at the end of the year in the Library’s international mapping exhibition, Mapping our World: Terra Incognita to Australia.

Dr Martin Woods National Library of Australia

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NLA Exhibition 2013/14 - Mapping our World: Terra Incognita to Australia

From the world’s great collections come the maps that inspired the idea of Australia, from ancient times to the first

complete map of the new continent. Mapping our World: Terra Incognita to Australia takes us on a journey from

ancient and medieval notions of a southern continent to Flinders’ 1814 chart of Australia.

A celebration of some of the world’s most significant discoveries, Mapping Our World is also a re-evaluation of

Australia’s mapping past, with unique works by the most eminent names in the history of cartography including

Ptolemy, Beatus, Mercator, Ortelius, Gerritsz, Blaeu and Cook.

Opening in the ancient world, the exhibition explores conceptions of the earth and the heavens. Indigenous

Australian, Babylonian, Greek, and Ptolemaic antecedents anchor the exhibition in the early traditions that first

suggested a world beyond the Mediterranean. Exquisite examples of medieval mapping, both Christian and Islamic,

give a sense of the complex and changing nature of maps at this time. The exhibition explores Europe’s first great

ocean-going voyages and the profound effect of Ptolemy’s ancient Geography, re-discovered in Europe after 1,000

years of obscurity.

Dutch mapping of the continent also features extensively in the exhibition, from the first contacts by the Dutch East

India Company to the voyages of Abel Tasman and Willem de Vlamingh. Mapping Our World illustrates how voyaging

to the Spice Islands created great wealth and power, allowing Dutch cartographers to piece together the map of New

Holland. The exhibition concludes with never-before-displayed hand-drawn maps created by James Cook, Louis de

Freycinet and Matthew Flinders.

The exhibition brings together over 130 spectacular maps, atlases, globes and scientific instruments drawn from the

National Library of Australia’s collections and those of Australian and international lenders including the Vatican

Library, the British Library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana. Mapping our

World is timed to coincide with both the centenary of Canberra in 2013 and the bicentenary of Matthew Flinders’

chart in 2014.

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Key items include: Macrobius manuscript – 850AD

Ahmad ibn Khalaf astrolabe – ca. 950 Anglo-Saxon world map – ca. 1050

Beatus world map – ca. 1250 Ramsey Abbey world map – ca. 1350

Ptolemy manuscript – ca. 1400 Andreas Walsperger world – ca. 1448

Fra Mauro – 1450 Roselli portolan – 1400s

Diogo Ribeiro planisphere – 1529 Jean Rotz Boke of Idrographie – 1542

Harleian map – ca. 1547 Diogo Homem Atlas nautique – 1559 Abraham Ortelius world map – 1564 Gerard Mercator world map – 1569

Blaeu celestial Globe – 1602 Gerritsz Pacific/Mar del Sur – 1622

Relics from the Batavia – 1629 Tasman voyage journal – 1642

de Vlamingh plate – 1697 Chronometers and instruments – 1700s

6 charts by James Cook – 1768 The Milius journal, Baudin – 1800-04

5 charts by Matthew Flinders – 1802-07

Fra Mauro, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice

Mapping our World: Terra Incognita to Australia, at the National Library, 7th November 2013 – 10th

March 2014. Updates: http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/mapping-our-world

Dr Martin Woods National Library of Australia

http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/mapping-our-world

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News from the State Library of New South Wales The latest edition to the SLNSW website - Plane sailing - features scientific instruments from the Library's collections and Thomas Riley Blanckley’s A Naval Expositor shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea. from 1750

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/history_nation/voyages/navigation/index.html?HomeLin

k=Discover_collections

Maggie Patton State Library of New South Wales

News from the Australasian Hydrographic Society On Monday 27 May at Mapoon, the First Contact Memorial was unveiled by the Governor of Queensland, the Elders of Mapoon, the President of the Dutch Senate, Mr Fred de Graf, and David Kempton MP representing the Premier of Queensland. On Tuesday 28 May a booklet, The Duyfken: Unveiling of the First Contact Memorial, was be launched at 7.00 pm at the Australian National Maritime Museum. As part of the launch Rupert Gerritsen, Chair of the Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society, and the editor of the booklet, gave a lecture, "The Duyfken and the First Contact Memorial - Historical Connections, Cultural Connections"

Rupert Gerritsen Chair, Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/history_nation/voyages/navigation/index.html?HomeLink=Discover_collections

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/history_nation/voyages/navigation/index.html?HomeLink=Discover_collections

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Coming events, recent publications and other items of interest…

Thanks to Dr Brendan Whyte for most of these…

The Art of the map : an illustrated history of map elements and embellishments / Dennis Reinhartz ; foreword by John Noble Wiford

Published: Sterling, November 2012 240 pages ISBN: 1-4027-6592-4 ISBN13: 9781402765926 $40.00 US $48.00 Canadian Hardcover with Jacket all in colour

This lavishly illustrated history of the golden age of cartography, from the sixteenth through the

nineteenth centuries, explores not only the embellishments on maps but also what they reveal

about the world in which they were created. Here there be monsters real and imagined; ships

actual and archetypical; newly discovered flora such as corn and tobacco; fauna ranging from

buffalo to unicorns; godlike beings and fantasy-like depictions of native peoples. The stunningly

rendered images illuminate an entire world.

http://www.sterlingpublishing.com/catalog?isbn=9781402765926

Seeing the World Anew: The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 & 1516 World Maps

A Jesuit priest, a German castle, two 16th-century maps discovered in a long-lost book. Herein lies the tale of the great re-visioning of the world, by the mapmaker who influenced Copernicus.

Among the prized collections in the Library of Congress are two enormous maps, one dated 1507 and the other 1516,

that dared to show the world in ways it had never been seen before. On the 1507 map were an ocean that hardly

http://www.sterlingpublishing.com/catalog?isbn=9781402765926

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anyone knew and a huge island that no one -- including Columbus -- had

ever placed correctly. And a name for that island, never seen on any map

before: America. That was just the start of the radical re-visioning of the

world on these rarest of artifacts, both lost for almost 400 years, each

surviving in just a single copy. For map lovers, history buffs, and thoughtful

observers of the shifts that propel knowledge forward, here is a singular

treasure, told by two leading authorities and replete with ancient images.

Our book features the largest-ever authorized reproductions of these

priceless maps, both in bound single sheets and pocketed foldout

composites.

http://www.levenger.com/Seeing-the-World-Anew-The-Radical-Vision-of-Martin-12549.aspx

An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia: The Illegal Trade in Arms, Drugs, People, Counterfeit Goods and Natural Resources in Mainland Southeast Asia (International Library of Human) Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy

Publication Date: 30 Mar 2013 | ISBN-10: 1848858159 | ISBN-13: 978-1848858152 Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the world s key regions for the trafficking of illegal goods. It is home to an international trade in small arms, nuclear smuggling rings, human trafficking, contraband and counterfeit goods, illicit currency and smuggled medicinal drugs. The scope and mechanisms of such trafficking, however, are far from understood. An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia brings together key researchers and cartographic specialists to provide a unique overview of the major forms of illegal trafficking in the region. Featuring 32 specially drawn full-colour maps detailing the trafficking hubs, counter-trafficking facilities and border status for each of the trafficking activities, together with political, historical, topographic, ecological and linguistic regional maps, the atlas provides an unparalleled reference resource that will be welcomed by professionals and academics across a wide range of disciplines.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Atlas-Trafficking-Southeast-Asia-International/dp/1848858159

http://www.levenger.com/Seeing-the-World-Anew-The-Radical-Vision-of-Martin-12549.aspx

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Atlas-Trafficking-Southeast-Asia-International/dp/1848858159

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.

Atlas des Migrants en Europe – French-language publication (Armand Colin, 2012; 143pp, ISBN 9782200249663)

Each year, thousands of candidates for exile fleeing their country at war or in crisis to reach Europe, some aboard makeshift boats overloaded and failed. Hundreds of them never will and will lose their lives by drowning or exhaustion. Face the alleged "danger" posed by these migrants number of leaders, the militarization of Europe, especially in the south and east, and the strengthening of controls appear today as the only watchwords. And, the early twenty-first century, crossed by a major economic crisis, the situation does not seem likely to improve. The new edition of the Atlas of migrants in Europe offers a critical assessment of EU policies on asylum and immigration established since the 1980s. Many features that stand increasing barriers to immigration in the territory of the Union. Fruit of a long fieldwork with migrants and held in a detention center population, maps, text, graphics and unpublished photographs gathered here can capture and understand complex realities and little known to the general public. For ten years, Migreurop European network of associations, researchers and advocates, promotes, analyzes and criticizes the widespread detention of foreigners without residence permits and outsourcing of controls, which are at the heart of the migration policy of the European Union

http://www.decitre.fr/livres/atlas-des-migrants-en-europe-9782200249663.html

http://www.decitre.fr/livres/atlas-des-migrants-en-europe-9782200249663.html

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Websites of interest

The University of Aix-Marseille is pleased to inform you that CartoMundi website dedicated to the

promotion of the Cartographic Heritage is now totally operational.

http://cartomundi.eu

Jean-Luc Arnaud Senior Researcher at CNRS - Aix-Marseille University

A selection of hand drawn maps_

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2013/jun/18/hand-drawn-maps-readers-favourites-in-pictures

John Robson University of Waikato

For those of you who like to make a statement

http://gisetc.com/home/made-from-a-map-

maps-on-your-nails/

Karen Craw Hocken Library, University of Otago

http://cartomundi.eu/



http://gisetc.com/home/made-from-a-map-maps-on-your-nails/

http://gisetc.com/home/made-from-a-map-maps-on-your-nails/

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Have you renewed your ANZMapS membership yet? Membership payments to ANZMapS for 2013 are now due. A membership form has now been uploaded to the website: http://www.anzmaps.org/membership/ Payment may be made by direct debit, cheque or credit card. The rate for members joining or renewing has been held at (AU) $50, or (AU) $30 for students. ANZMapS membership is for a calendar year, and includes delivery of The Globe, and the ANZMapS Newsletter.

For members located in Australia, an electronic deposit may be made direct to ANZMapS National Australia Bank account, Australian and new Zealand Map Society A/c 64 233 6227 / BSB 083 170 [If you are using this option please also alert by email to [email protected] ] Martin Woods, Business manager, ANZMapS.

Have you subscribed lately?

The editor has received several enquiries about the ANZMapS email list, so here is the patented elementary

method of subscribing to ANZMAPS email, to take part in superior map-related conversations.

Email a request to :

[email protected]

(Please include your name in the subject line of the email so we know you aren’t Spam)

You will receive an automatic email. To confirm, reply to that email and send.

That’s it! Your email will be sent to the moderator and provided your name is not Spam, you will be added to the

list, and be able to post and receive emails to [email protected]

In this day and age it is easy to forget that some of our members may not be internet savvy. If you know of some

members or map enthusiasts who are in this dwindling group please alert them to up-coming events such as the

conference. Thank you.

Please also spread the word to members who may not be electronically connected about the conference and

membership of the Society.

http://www.anzmaps.org/membership/

mailto:[email protected]



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The Australian and New Zealand Map Society Newsletter. ISSN 1837-3372.

An occasional series of newsletters produced to keep members of the Australian and New Zealand Map

Society informed about matters of immediate interest and to supplement The Globe, journal of the

ANZMapS. Compiled and edited by Julie Senior.

Material for the Newsletter can be forwarded to: Julie Senior, Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki

Paenga Hira, The Domain, Private Bag 92018, Victoria St. West, Auckland 1142, AOTEAROA NEW

ZEALAND. (Email: [email protected])

Please send reviews, articles and other items of general interest for inclusion in The Globe to: Dr. Brendan

Whyte, Map Section, National Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Parkes, ACT 2600, AUSTRALIA. (Email:

[email protected])

GST: The Australian and New Zealand Map Society's ABN is 19 046 516 617. As a not-for-profit incorporated

association (registered in Victoria - no. A0034021A) with an annual turnover of less than $100 000, ANZMaps is not

registered for and does not charge GST. Consequently, ANZMapS does not issue ‘tax invoices’, as these may only

be issued by organizations that are registered for GST

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