Corporate Body

New South Wales Surveyor General [I] (1788 - 1887)

Colony of New South Wales

From
1788
To
1887
Functions
Regulatory Body and Surveying or Mapping
Reference No
State Archives and Records NSW Agency ID: AGY-1773

Summary

Established in 1788 the Surveyor General [I] (1788 - 1887) was responsible for the mapping and surveying of land in and around the new settlement of Botany Bay and later colony of New South Wales. In 1856 the Surveyor General's Department came under the ministerial control of the Department of Lands and Public Works (later Lands).

Related People

Published resources

Books

  • Kass, Terry, Sails to Satelites: the Surveyors General of NSW (1786-2007) (Bathurst, N.S.W.: New South Wales Department of Lands, 2008), 484 pp. Details

Resource Sections

Elizabeth Daniels

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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