The Colony of Western Australia: from surveys of John Septimus Roe Esq. Surveyor Gen’ and from other Official Documents in the Colonial Office and Admiralty.

This issue of The Colony of Western Australia, 1856/1 (no date) . Note as Prescott states this issue was printed without the date, it shows ‘Pubd. Jany 2nd ..’ but not the year. Tooley 130 p.19

 See Prescott  Arrowsmith’s Australian Map

• Discoveries in Western Australia, 1833/1
• Discoveries in Western Australia, 1833/2
• Discoveries in Western Australia, 1833/3
• Discoveries in Western Australia, 1833/4
• Discoveries in Western Australia, 1833/5 (1834)
• Discoveries in Western Australia, 1833/6 (1838/1)
• Discoveries in Western Australia, 1833/7 (1838/2)

This first issue of The Colony of Western Australia is a remodelled Discoveries map, which was the earlier state of the map. It has been extensively revised and includes many new place names including places such as Rockingham, Pinjarra, Picton, Bunbury and Busselton on the west coast. On the south coast Normalup, Rame Hd., Irwin Inlet, Dillon Bay, Bremer Bay and Pt. Hood among others. New rivers flowing to the sea are the Lennox, Vasse and Capel into Geographe Bay and the estuary of an un-named river east of Pt. Knob. Rugged ranges north of Abany are now named the Stirling Ranges.

The coast line has been greatly altered and many new features are named.

Land allotments appear in the Swan, Avon and Toodyoy valleys, near Pinjarra and the Murray River, on the west coast at Busselton and near Picton, Waterloo and Williamsburg. Other blocks are shown near Albany and Wyndham and in the Vale of Kalgan.

New discoveries include the tracks of A. Collie in 1832 up a tributary of the Swan River and back via the Swan, this possibly being an examination of the 1500 acres granted to him.

G. F. Moore’s May 1836 explorations are shown north from Guildford to the Moore R. then south-west following the river and thence south-east back to Guildford. A second exploration is shown north-east of Guildford to Northam and beyond with Brown [Peter Broun] in 1836.

J. S. Roe’s journey is shown from Albany west and then north-east before turning north-west in Nov and Dec.1835. Pushing inland J. S. Roe’s track appears Oct/Nov 1836 east of Perth from York to the Glenelg Hills thence north to latitude 31°45’S and from thence westward to the Moore R and thence southward to Guildford.

Tracks of Lt. Bunbury in Oct 1836 between Beverley and Williamsburg are shown.

A. Hillman’s tracks from Pinjarra on the west coast eastward to Williamsburg in January 1835 appear, and his route west of Albany towards Pt Nuyts in July 1833.

Lt. W. Preston’s track is shown from Augusta to the north in vicinity of Vasse Inlet in 1831.

The supposed track of convicts overland from Albany to Geographe Bay has been removed.