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The District Of Adelaide, South Australia,
As Divided Into Country Sections.
1840
The Map
| Full Title: |
The District Of Adelaide, South Australia, As Divided Into Country Sections. From The Trigonometrical Surveys Of Colonel Light, Late Survr. Genl. John Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Square, 1839. |
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| Date Of Map: |
London, Published Feby. 18th. 1840, by John Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Square. |
| Date Printed: |
June 10th. 1841. James & Luke J. Hansard Printers. |
| Publisher: |
John Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Square. |
| Source: |
Second Report From The Select Committee On South Australia: Together With The Minutes Of Evidence, Appendix, And Index.
Ordered By The House Of Commons To Be Printed 10 June 1841.
Appendix To Report From Second Select Committee On South Australia No. 2.
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| Size: |
66.5cm x 54.5cm (26¼" x 21½") |
| Scale: |
1½" : Approx 1 British Statute Mile |
| Extent: |
Gepps Cross - Athelstone - Flagstaff Hill - Semaphore |
| Description: |
Folding paper map of Adelaide, South Australia, and the Adelaide Plains. Hand coloured. Folds into Report From Second Select Committee On South Australia, 1841. Disbound but in very good condition.
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MAPCO also has an earlier 1839 edition of this map on display. It is interesting to compare the 1840 map displayed here with the 1839 edition, as the 1840 map records the names of later purchasers of land across the Adelaide plains district. |
Key to map below title:
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* Below this mark the rivers cease to run during the dry season.
O Stations of the Trigonometrical Survey.
The large sections contain 134 Acres each.
The small sections contain 80 Acres each.
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How To View This Map
There are two ways to navigate through this map of Adelaide.
The map can be easily navigated by using the thumbnail images (above) to move directly to the section of the map of interest. Hovering the mouse pointer over the thumbnail images will display a pop-up message showing the present-day suburbs (northern and southern extent) covered by that map section. However, as this is a very early map of the Adelaide plains there are few familiar landmarks, which can
map the map slightly confusing to refer to.
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To overcome this problem large views of the map have been provided. The large views make navigating the map easier by clearly showing familiar roads and the few recognisable natural landmarks (such as creeks and the River Torrens) shown on the map. This method of navigation of the map images gives a full view of the map with four enlargable views (top
left, top right, bottom left, and bottom right quarters), accessed by clicking the quarters of the large map image.
The resultant enlarged views of the four separate quarters of the map then act as imagemaps, meaning that clicking on an area of the map of interest will lead to a further enlarged view of that part of the map.
The final enlarged view page will include a small thumbnail image of the map, which will enable easy navigation to adjacent map sections.
The easiest way is to click away and see where this leads.
Enjoy this wonderful early map of Adelaide!
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Click Here For The
Large Navigation Map
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Associated Maps Of Adelaide
You can also view other early maps of Adelaide and South Australia, taken from:
"First Annual Report Of The Colonization Commissioners Of South Australia" - 28 July 1836.
"Second Annual Report Of The Colonization Commissioners For South Australia" - 26 January 1838.
"Third Annual Report Of The Colonization Commissioners For South Australia" - 13 May 1839.
Image Sizes and Download Times
The images of Arrowsmith's District Of Adelaide map displayed here have an average size of approximately 245KB. At 56KB dial-up connection speed each page will take about 30 seconds to fully load, although some pages can take as long as 80 seconds to load.
Please be patient, as it is worth the wait.
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