The Map

Full Title:	Plan Of The City Of Adelaide In South Australia. With The Acre Allotments Numbered And A Reference To The Names Of The Original Purchasers.	View The Second Colonization Report
Mapmaker:	Surveyed And Drawn By Colonel Light 1837
Publisher:	James & Luke G. Hansard & Sons, Printers
Date:	26th January, 1838
Source:	Second Annual Report Of The Colonization Commissioners For South Australia To Her Majesty's Principal Secretary Of State For The Colonies 1837. 22 December 1837. Presented pursuant to Act 4 & 5 Will IV. c. 95. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 26 January 1838.
Size:	56.5cm x 44.5cm (22¼" x 17½")
Scale:	1" : Approx 2½ Chains 8½" : Approx 1 British Statute Mile
Extent:	North Park Lands - East Park Lands - South Park Lands - West Park Lands
Description:	Folding paper map of Adelaide, South Australia. Folds into Report Of The Colonization Commissioners. Disbound, but in very good condition.

This early map of the City of Adelaide was included in an 1837 report to the Parliament in England, entitled "Second Annual Report Of The Colonization Commissioners For South Australia To Her Majesty's Principal Secretary Of State For The Colonies. 1837", the pages of which are here displayed. The enclosed plan of Adelaide was Surveyed and Drawn by Colonel Light.

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The Parliamentary report and map of Adelaide are particularly fascinating because they include a "Reference To The Plan Of Adelaide, In South Australia, With The Acre Allotments Numbered And A Reference To The Names Of The Original Purchasers". This reference records names familiar to all Adelaidians, including Robert Addison, Lieutenant Finniss, Henry Gouger, Pasco St. Leger Grenfell, Osmond Gilles, John Gouger, Robert Gouger, Thomas Gilbert, John Hallett, Governor Hindmarsh, G.S. Kingston, Captain Lipson, Colonel Light, George Morphett, John Morphett, N. Morphett, Thomas Playford, E. Stephens, Samuel Stephens, G.B. Strangways, Captain Wright, and many others. The report is addressed to The Right Honourable Lord Glenelg, and is signed by Robert Torrens, Samuel Mills, Jacob Montefiore, James Pennington, Josiah Roberts, John George Shaw LeFevre, Edward Barnard, and William Hutt.

The "Second Report Of The Colonization Commissioners", dated 22 December 1837, gives a fascinating glimpse of the very early days of the young Colony of South Australia. Two other maps of historical interest are included in this report, being "A Survey Of The Coast On The East Side Of St. Vincents Gulf Made By Colonel Light, Surveyor General", and "Nepean Bay, Kangaroo Island. From A Sketch By Colonel Light, Surveyor General For South Australia". Both of these maps will be displayed here in the near future.

MAPCO is fortunate to hold a copy of the "First Annual Report Of The Colonization Commissioners For South Australia 1836. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed 28th July, 1836", which includes an early map of South Australia entitled "Part of Southern Australia from the 132° to 141° degree of East Longitude". You can preview these two items using the links above. Both items will be displayed in full during 2006.

MAPCO also holds a copy of the "Third Annual Report Of The Colonization Commissioners For South Australia 1839. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed 13th May, 1839". The third annual report includes a huge map of the Adelaide plains. This map is displayed here, and is entitled "The District Of Adelaide, South Australia, As Divided Into Country Sections. From The Trigonometrical Surveys Of Colonel Light, Late Survr. Genl." This map also includes the names of the original landowners up to 1838.

I hope that you enjoy these intriguing glimpses into Adelaide's past.

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