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Rare c.19th 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, Granville after the name of the Port.
Cuthbertson was Government surveyor in Queensland, who in 1886 was instructed to survey Port Moresby and environ. In 1887 leader of an expedition to British New Guinea equipped by the Victorian Branch of the Royal. Geographic Society of Australasia; W.A. Sayer accompanied the expedition as a naturalist.
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.
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