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The Surveyors

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S T Gill
The Surveyors from The Australian Sketch-Book, Melbourne, Landowne, 1974, (first published, Melbourne(?), Hamel & Ferguson, 1864).

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La Trobe University

Heywood Library

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Heyward Library Special Collection, La Trobe University, Victoria.

The map represents 15 years of arduous field work by surveyors Robert Hoddle and William Urquhart and draughtsman, C A C Bayly.

This sketch by S T Gill shows surveyors at work in the Victorian bush.

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The General Survey Map of Central Victoria Map

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Selwyn’s Mt Alexander District Map

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The Surveyors

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Fire stick farmed volcanic soils

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Major Thomas Mitchell, “Mammaloid Hills from Mt Greenock”

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Henry Godfrey, “Boort Plains”, c. mid-1840s.

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S T Gill The Avengers

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W A Cawthorne, “The Arrest of the Goulburn Blacks”

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William Sandbach, “The Infancy of Bendigo: Golden Square in 1851”

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Ludwig Becker, “The Notabilities of Bendigo”

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The Map and Remembering

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The Bendigo Creek Story

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The Surveyors

Story credits

Story objects

The General Survey Map of Central Victoria Map

Selwyn’s Mt Alexander District Map

The Surveyors

Fire stick farmed volcanic soils

Major Thomas Mitchell, “Mammaloid Hills from Mt Greenock”

Henry Godfrey, “Boort Plains”, c. mid-1840s.

S T Gill The Avengers

W A Cawthorne, “The Arrest of the Goulburn Blacks”

William Sandbach, “The Infancy of Bendigo: Golden Square in 1851”

Ludwig Becker, “The Notabilities of Bendigo”

The Map and Remembering

The Bendigo Creek Story

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