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C1887
Plan of Port Moresby and the road to the Lalokie River, New Guinea
Mapmaker:
Rare map showing present day Port Moresby from surveys made in July and August 1886 by Walter R. Guthbertson when the town itself was known as named Granville after the name of the Port. Guthberston, “I hereby certify on honor, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Plan of Port Moresby and the road to the Lalokie River, New Guinea
Date:
C1887
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, with folds as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured lithograph.
Image Size:
487mm
x 600mm
Paper Size:
540mm
x 661mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1887
Description:
Rare map showing present day Port Moresby from surveys made in July and August 1886 by Walter R. Guthbertson when the town itself was known as named Granville after the name of the Port.
Guthberston, “I hereby certify on honor, that this survey has been carried out by myself personally, with the theodolite and that the boundaries shewn on the diagram accord with those marked and defined on the ground (Signed) Walter R. Cuthbertson, Surveyor, 9.9.86. Note. All corners are marked by hard wood pegs“.
The first European to sight Port Moresby was Captain John Moresby in 1873, he named it in honour of his father Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby. Granville East was the name given to where the residence of the Governor General was.
