Australian and New Zealand Map Society Incorporated
ANZMapS promotes all aspects of cartography to a wide range of potential users. ANZMapS was created from the merger in March 2009, of the Australian Map Circle (formed 1973) and New Zealand Map Society (formed 1977). It is dedicated to exploring and developing the world of maps.
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MAP OF THE MONTH

First sketch of a geological map of Australia including Tasmania, 1876 by R. Brough Smyth, Secretary for Mines and Chief Inspector of Mines for the Colony of Victoria Z/M3 804caq/1876/1
Source: State Library of New South Wales
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The recording of the ‘Pictorial Mapmakers’ ANZMapS webinar (livestreamed on 19 May) is now available on the ANZMapS YouTube channel. You can find out more about the presenters via their …
Top Image Details:
•Hagstrom’s map of the Pacific and the Far East [cartographic material] : on Mercator’s projection by Hagstrom Company, (1945?).
•Guanchzhou (F-49-35): Kitaĭ provint︠s︡ii︠a︡ Guandun / Generalʹnyĭ shtab by Soviet Union. Sovetskai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡. Generalʹnyĭ shtab Совет Унион. Советская Армия. Генеральный штаб.
•Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus/auctore Petro Plancio 1594 ; Ioannes de Duetecum iunior fecit [i.e. engraved by Jan van Doetecum].
•Geography: a map of the world in three section, describing the polar regions to the tropics in which are traced the tracks of Lord Mulgrave and Captain Cook towards the North & south Pole and the torrid zone or tropical regions with the new discoveries in the South Sea , [ca. 1795]a