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Map showing the route of the West Australian exploring expedition through the centre of Australia, from Champion Bay on the west coast to the overland telegraph line between Adelaide and Port Darwin, commanded by John Forrest, F.R.G.S., 1874 Princeton University Public content

Author(s):
Publisher:
London : John Murray, 1875.
Access:
Public
Description:
Camps along route are numbered and dated. Latitudes of most camps are given. Relief shown by hachures. Includes information on terrain, soil quality, groundwater, and vegetation. Sites of hostile encounters with aborigines are shown. Route of Adelaide-Darwin telegraph line between 24° S and 29° S is shown. From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 45 (1875), p. 249-99; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687
Place(s):
Western Australia and South Australia
Subject(s):
Australia—Discovery and exploration—Maps, Surveying, Telegraph lines—Australia, Western Australia—Maps, South Australia—Maps, Australia—Maps, and Physical maps
Call number:
G9021.B5 1874 .R6
Held by:
Princeton
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