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Newsletter 115, July 2013 in This Issue 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) 1 Newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Map Society (ANZMapS), published by The Australian & New Zealand Map Society, Incorporated (Melbourne, Victoria). Issue # 115, July 2013 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. 2 Newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Map Society (ANZMapS), published by The Australian & New Zealand Map Society, Incorporated (Melbourne, Victoria). Issue # 115, July 2013 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) 3 Newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Map Society (ANZMapS), published by The Australian & New Zealand Map Society, Incorporated (Melbourne, Victoria). Issue # 115, July 2013 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 4 Newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Map Society (ANZMapS), published by The Australian & New Zealand Map Society, Incorporated (Melbourne, Victoria). Issue # 115, July 2013 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 5 Newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Map Society (ANZMapS), published by The Australian & New Zealand Map Society, Incorporated (Melbourne, Victoria). Issue # 115, July 2013 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. 6 Newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Map Society (ANZMapS), published by The Australian & New Zealand Map Society, Incorporated (Melbourne, Victoria). Issue # 115, July 2013 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.
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