Australia

Browse original hydrographic maps of Australia, featuring historic sea charts of Australian coasts, Great Barrier Reef passages, and approaches to key ports. These antique nautical charts reflect the evolution of colonial hydrography in one of the world’s most challenging maritime regions.

Antique hydrographic maps of Australia’s coastal waters chart the approaches used by early explorers, traders, and surveyors along the continent’s vast seaboard. These maritime maps include soundings, reef markers, harbour plans, and detailed coastline engraving, essential for navigation in unfamiliar and treacherous seas.

Notable creators include Captain James Cook, Matthew Flinders, Phillip Parker King, and the hydrographic offices of the British Admiralty and Dutch VOC. Their charts contributed to safer passage around the Great Barrier Reef and across Bass Strait, greatly influencing later colonial settlement and naval strategy.

Highly collectible for both historical and artistic reasons, these maps reveal how early mariners wrestled with one of the planet’s most complex coastal environments.

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