Story: Early mapping
Page 7 – External links and sources
More links and websites
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ANZMaps
The Australian and New Zealand Map Society is an Australasian group of map producers, users and curators.
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Guide to finding New Zealand historical maps
This document by University of Auckland geography librarian Brian Marshall is a useful and comprehensive guide to where historical maps of New Zealand can be found (PDF, 1.53 MB).
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Images of early maps on the web – 11. Australia, Oceania & Antarctica
This map history site contains annotated links to collections of early maps on the web, including early maps of New Zealand.
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Land Information New Zealand
Land Information New Zealand is the government authority on land surveys and ownership, topographical maps and nautical charts. They hold the early surveyors’ field books and historic survey plans.
More suggestions and sources
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Barton, Phillip Lionel. ‘Māori cartography and the European encounter’. In Cartography in the traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian and Pacific societies, edited by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis, 493–532. The history of cartography, vol. 2, book 3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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Byrnes, Giselle. Boundary markers: land surveying and the colonisation of New Zealand. Wellington: Bridget Williams, 2001.
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Easdale, Nora. Kairuri: the measurer of the land. The life of the nineteenth century surveyor pictured in his art and writings. Petone: Highgate/Price Milburn, 1988.
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Maling, Peter. Historic charts and maps of New Zealand, 1642–1875. Auckland: Reed, 1999.
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Marshall, Brian. From sextants to satellites: a cartographic time line for New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Map Society, 2005.
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Ross, John O’C. This stern coast: the story of the charting of the New Zealand coast. Wellington: Reed, 1969.
