Corporate Body

Royal Australian Survey Corps (1936 - 1996)

The Australian Army

From
1936
Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
To
1996
Functions
Surveying or Mapping, Defence Industries and Army
Reference No
CA 7122
Legal Status
Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
Location
Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, Victoria

Summary

The Royal Australian Survey Corps began in July 1915 at the Australian Survey Corps. The prefix 'Royal' was added to the title in 1936. The Royal Australian Survey Corps provided charts and maps for training and military operations of the Australian Defence Force. The Corps was disbanded in 1996.

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Ailie Smith

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260