The only
comprehensive listing of early map image sites. The
monthly additions are indicated thus, e.g. {March
2002} at the end of the
entry. Since the symbols { } are not used elsewhere, you can search on
those elements [enter Ctrl+F]; e.g. 2002} will find entries added
at any time in that year)
Please notify any corrections or additions to the editor, Tony
Campbell:
Make sure to consult its copyright statement
before using any of the images you find
Australia. Canberra, National Library of Australia (high res. images of
nearly 7,000 maps, mostly from the Ferguson, Nan Kivell and Tooley collections, as well as the Doncker atlas (1659). These can be
accessed either via the Digital Collections page (select ‘Maps’ and
then use the ‘Search Maps’ box to find digitised maps only), or via the catalogue
(with ‘Limit to’ set to ‘Maps’), which will find all maps, most not yet digitised) {December, 2002; revised March 2007}
Australia. 'Crux - rare maps from the
State Library of NSW' (high res. MrSID images, ranging from a good selection of world maps to detailed Australian
subjects - "a selection of 85 [actually 89] manuscript and printed maps and charts, which illustrate the unveiling of the mysteries
of the islands and the continents of the Southern Hemisphere between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries") {March, 2004}
Australia. 'Map and Plan Collection Online' (a
small but presumably growing selection of very high res. maps, primarily of London, other parts of the British Isles, and
Australia, designed for genealogists; for a listing, and updates, see News - David Hale, MAPCO) {February, 2007}
'Australia on the Map' (originally set
up to celebrate the first documented landing on Australia in 1606, this includes, under 'Research Resources':
Landings List, First Contacts, Background Papers, Books; and a small 'Gallery' with medium res. maps (under
Education and Information: 'Pictures' - Australian Hydrographic Society) {February, 2008}
Australia. 'South
Land to New Holland: Dutch Charting of Australia 1606-1756' (a collaborative exhibition
celebrating the Dutch discovery in 1606, comprising a series of linked, illustrated notes on
the discoveries, and a section on 'Dutch Mapping'; the 26 maps (featuring the world, East
Indies and Australia - from various Australian libraries) are enlargeable to very high res.
via Zoomify; they are also listed individually here) {September, 2006}
+ Australia. 'Voyages of Grand
Discovery' (an online exhibition at the Maritime Museum of Western Australia, July-November 2007, focussing 'on some of the
great European voyages that helped to unravel the mysteries of the South Land or Terra Australis', illustrated with low res.
images) {September, 2007}
Australia
- New South Wales. The Parish Map Preservation Project (a searchable database of over
35,000 high res., MrSID images of County, Municipal, Parish, and Town maps and the series
of (often earlier) Pastoral maps
- New South Wales Department of Lands). See
also under Web Projects{July, 2002; updated March 2005 &
November 2006}
Australia
- Queensland. 'Real estate maps' (an unspecified number of scans , though searching for
'maps' retrieved 181 items, '1850s to mid-1900s', predominantly from Brisbane, enlargeable to
medium res. - John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland) {November, 2006}
Australia
- Victoria (and Melbourne) (high res. images (22 of Victoria,
50 of Melbourne), with the ability
to zoom, enlarge and select details - Map Collection, University of
Melbourne)
Hawai'i. 'Mapping Hawai‘i' (seven low res. maps illustrating an article by Susan Halas in
the, Aloha Airlines in-flight magazine, Spirit of Aloha) {January, 2006}
Marianas
Islands. 'Maps' (a selection, mostly from the late 19th/early 20th centuries; click to
enlarge to high res. - see also under 'Geography' - Dirk H.R. Spennemann) {November,
2005}
Marshall
Islands Historic Maps (a selection of late 19th century general and detailed maps,
enlargeable to high res. - Dirk H.R. Spennemann) {April, 2005}
New Guinea (text excerpts and enlargeable, slow-loading illustrations from George
Collingridge's The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea(1906)) {March, 2005}
New Zealand (the Alexander Turnbull Library, the National Library
of New Zealand, Wellington, has 240 medium res. images relating to New Zealand [click on 'Search catalogues and databases']) {June, 2006}. [Alternatively, go to the Cartographic
Collections page and select the link 'See maps with digital copies...', for 443 medium res. images (mostly recent) {April, 2007} ]
New
Zealand. ‘Auckland Crown Grants’ (Charles Heaphy’s Plan of the town of Auckland,
1851, which includes names of original Crown Grant purchasers, arranged in 54 medium res.
sections - Auckland City Libraries) {April, 2005}
New Zealand. 'Early
Mapping' (a series of illustrated essays and accompanying material by Melanie Lovell-Smith, in Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of
New Zealand; the images are also accessible via the Gallery, and
individually via Images
& Media, enlargeable to high res.; see also the Biographies Gallery
for links to the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, and Further Sources,
which links to other relevant entries, or search for 'maps') {September, 2007}
New Zealand. ‘Historic Maps’ (select a category or search for maps, 1830s-1950s, including the George Church Collection, enlargeable to high res. [the title word ‘map’ produced 220 hits] - Auckland City Libraries) {April, 2005}
New
Zealand. 'Maps online' (650 medium to high res. images [with more to be added later]
covering Auckland, as well as charts and maps from around New Zealand, from the earliest
days of colonization to the present - Auckland City Libraries) {March, 2004}