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Names
Surveying Collection
IDs
MM 12
http://migration.historysa.com.au/collections/surveying-collection
Descriptions
A collection of objects related to the surveying of South Australia and to the surveyors who worked here during the 19th century. Many of these objects form a sub-collection of the Historical Relics Collection.
A number of the objects relate to South Australia's first Surveyor General, Colonel William Light. These include surveyors' chains and the first plan of Adelaide, drawn up to Light's instructions. Another highlight of the collection is 'Poeppel's post', the original marker used in 1880 by Augustus Poeppel to mark the intersection of the boundaries of South Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.
The history of Adelaide as a 'planned city' and the broader history of South Australia's British settlement under the Wakefield system make surveying of particular importance to South Australia's history. This collection preserves some of the tools used by early surveyors and records the development of official boundaries, as well as the understanding of and changes to territory administered by the South Australian colonial government. This collection complements other History SA collections, in particular a large collection of surveying instruments held at the South Australian Maritime Museum.
A Migration Museum collection. Access to collection items held in Museum Stores is by appointment only.
Subjects
British Settlemen; Colonel William Light; South Australia; Surveying
Colonel William Light; Migration Museum, South Australia
Documents; Surveying equipment
Surveying
Surveying (Geography)
Coverage Spatial
Australia; South Australia
Coverage Temporal
1795
1805
Related Collections
Dates
2012-12-12 16:50
2011-03-22 15:47