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Map Description
Historical Map of Australia and
New Zealand 1788-1911
Australia and New Zealand since 1788.
The
Commonwealth of Australia
(1901).
Queensland, Settled, 1825.
Northern, or Moreton Bay, District, 1842, separate province
with self-government, 1859. New South
Wales, settled at Port Jackson, 1788, Middle,
or Sydney, District, 1842, granted self-government, 1855.
Victoria, settled, 1835,
Southern,
or port Philipp District, 1842, separate province, 1851, granted
self-government, 1855.
Tasmania, settled 1803, Van
Diemen's Land till 1853. Separate province, 1825. Granted
self-government 1856. New South Wales,
British possession 1788, boundary in 1788.
South Australia, settled
1836. Granted self-government 1856. Enlarged in 1863 by the
addition of North Australia
(established as a province in 1838, reestablished in 1846,
abandoned in 1849) and Alexandra Land.
Western Australia, settled
1829. Granted self-
government, 1890, 1893.
- Routes
of Stuart, 1858 - 1862
- Routes of Giles and Forrest, 1874 - 1876
- Overland telegraph line (1872)
- Railways
New Zealand, settled, 1814.
Governed from New South Wales, 1814-1839. United with New South
Wales 1839. Separate province, 1840. Granted self-government, 1852,
1875.
Credits
University of Texas at Austin. From
The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1911.
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