An excellent programme of speakers now listed, addressing historical and current cartographic interests

Earlybird registrations will expire in May. Register now.. 

Full details of conference events,tours etc.  Brisbane July 8-11

On Friday 24 February, The National Library hosted a seminar, Cook’s Treasures, for an across the board exploration of Cook’s influence on Australian and South Pacific history. Keynote speaker Professor Iain McCalman delivered the 2012 Kenneth Binns Lecture, ‘Captain Cook’s Environmental Crisis on the Great Barrier Reef’. Over 100 guests enjoyed presentations by ANZMapS member and author of “Captain Cook’s War and Peace” John Robson, and a cast of mariners, academics, and North Queensland people.  

List of presentations:

2012 Kenneth Binns Lecture, ‘Captain Cook’s Environmental Crisis on the Great Barrier Reef’, Professor Iain McCalman

Cook in Print: Andrew Sergeant, National Library of Australia

The Cook Archive: Nicola Mackay-Sim, Curator Pictures, National Library of Australia

Cook the Map Maker: John Robson, Map Librarian, University of Waikato

Dispelling the Myths, Oral history through the Guugu Yimithir people of contact with Cook and his crew: Alberta Hornsby, Kuku Yalanji, Guugu Yimithirr, Idinji, Ankamuthi and Ganggalida tribes of North Queensland

The Captain and His Book in the Victoria River Country, and Beyond: Deborah Bird Rose, Professor of Social Inclusion, Macquarie University

James Cook and the Endeavour at Botany Bay and Cooktown: John Molony, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University

Life on Cook’s Endeavour: Alan Frost, Professor Emeritus, La Trobe University

Cooks Relics Real and Imagined: Dr Nigel Erskine, Curator Exploration & European Settlement, National Maritime Museum

Some late improvements of the means for Preserving the Health of Mariners: Allen Mawer, independent researcher

For the first time the organisations that represent the enthusiasts, practitioners and the business of everything to do with maps are coming together to stage the Brisbane International Geospatial Forum, “Global Connections through Mapping, at the State Library Queensland July 8-10, 2012.

BIGF Call for papers

Brisbane 2012 conference brochure

The keynote speaker at the 2011 ANZMapS conference was Frederik Muller,  who gave a presentation on the first map documenting Magellan’s sighting of the Southland and sailing of the Pacific,  Fries’  Tabula moderna alterius hemispherius, 1525 .

Following the presentation a nmber of attendees requested a  copy of  Fries’ Tabula moderna alterius hemispherius, 1525 .

The  text on the reverse has also been linked

If you have additional questions regarding the map or the presentation Frederik Muller is happy to be contacted at info@frederikmuller-rarebooks.com

The Prize is awarded for the outstanding paper at each Australian & New Zealand Map Society conference. There were many excellent papers presented at the Sydney conference, 24-27 May at the State Library of NSW, making the panel’s choice this year a very difficult one. Dr Jan Tent is a linguist at the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, and director of the Australian National Placenames Survey (ANPS). Jan’s paper was, “Where in the World is Ulimaroa? Or, How a Pacific Island Became the Australian Continent”, and is to be published in a forthcoming issue of The Globe.

2011 Conference gallery…

The launch of Professor Robert Clancy’s latest book written with Paul Harcombe,  Maps that Shaped Australia, will be held following the conference Welcome Drinks at 7.30 pm on Tuesday 24 May in the Members Room, Mitchell Wing, State Library of New South Wales. If you are attending the conference you are welcome to stay for the launch after registering for the conference.

Official launch of the map Early Navigators of Bass Strait at the State Library of Victoria, Thursday 7th April, 6pm.  The map and educational resource will be launched by Emeritus Professor Victor Prescott, and the Surveyor-General of Victoria, John E. Tulloch.  The map will be available from Information Victoria bookshop http://www.bookshop.vic.gov.au/   Land Victoria will also be assisting financially in the development of educational resources for use with ENBS in schools.

More about Early Navigators of Bass Strait: Two documents supporting the map are now online on the ANZMapS Publications page..

Don’t forget to register this week for the ANZMapS conference in Sydney in May if you would like to take advantage of the Early Bird registration fee of $320.00 including the conference dinner. If you would prefer not to be by credit card online contact Maggie mpatton@sl.nsw.gov.au

The National Library has digitised its 1974 flood maps, in response to public interest.

 “Flood map of Brisbane & suburbs”, and an 18-sheet 1:10,000 map set of the 1974 Brisbane River flood

 http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1550973

http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1550980

For current information on the Queensland floods, there are severalk sources of mapping: 

Brisbane City Council has PDF maps for all Brisbane suburbs showing historic inundation levels and current flood advice and warnings.

Ipswich City Council has similar information for Ipswich suburbs.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has Queensland river maps online showing the locations of flood warning rainfall and river height stations for each river basin.

BOM also has a regularly updated South West Queensland Rivers Flood Information Map

The Commonwealth Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities has a recent natural rivers map for Queensland which may be downloaded.