The Globe articles from January 1 2003

The Globe archives from January 1 2003

On error correction and accuracy assessment of satellite imagery registration.
January 1, 2003... Digital images recorded by satellite detectors contain detailed information on ground cover types of the Earth. However, satellites data need to be used in conjunction with traditional maps, aerial photography and ground observation to reveal...

The charts produced during the Pacific voyages of Bougainville and cook: a comparison.
January 1, 2003... Two expeditions set off from Europe in the late 1760s to enter the Pacific and explore that ocean. The first was French, led by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville; the second was British, led by James Cook. History has remembered them very...

Final report on the work of the Anglo American cataloguing committee for cartographic materials.
January 1, 2003... In the six months since the report of the Committee's work appeared in The Globe no. 52 (June 2002) much has been achieved and this contributor can give a sigh of relief that the project on the revision of Cartographic Materials: a manual of...

The Classic Robert Logan Jack Map Collection.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Classic Robert Logan Jack Map Collection, by Ross Thomas. Melbourne: Ross Thomas, 1999. 1000 numbered copies. xii, 106 p. : ill, port., maps ; 420 x 297mm, hard bound. ISBN 0646370146. $300. Available from: Ross Thomas, Operations...

Maps and Plans of Dutch Ceylon: a Representative Collection of Cartography from the Dutch Period.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Maps and Plans of Dutch Ceylon: A Representative Collection of Cartography from the Dutch Period by K.D. Paranavitana & R.K. de Silva. Colombo, Central Cultural Fund & Sri Lanka-Netherlands Association, 2002. Limited edition of 500, viii,...

Dr. J. Stuart Duncan: 21-6-1922--24-4-2003.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... Dr. Stuart Duncan often claimed to be a 'non-adjectival geographer', a challenging position in an increasingly fragmented and specialised academic world. He cherished the breadth and synthesizing nature of a discipline to which he was to...

Brig. (retd) Donald Macdonald: 1910--2003.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... Brigadier Donald Macdonald, a former commandant of the Army Survey Corps, who has died in Sydney, aged 92, made a significant contribution to the mapping of Australia. In the course of a distinguished career spanning almost 50 years, he reached...

Anthony Gerald Bomford: 17.01.1927-10.05.2003.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... Tony Bomford, a former Director of National Mapping Australia, passed away in Canberra on 10 May 2003 aged 76. Tony was a surveyor, mapmaker and mathematician. He was well known for his love of travel, kayaking, stamp collecting, poetry, music,...

Addenda.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2003... Urban, Frank, "Maps on stamps, frontiers and magpies", The Globe no. 53, 2002, pp. 33-42. The bibliographic references for Frank Urban's paper in The Globe no.53 were unfortunately incomplete. The full bibliographic references are: ...

The secret agenda of Western Australian explorer, Robert Dale (1809-1853).
January 1, 2003... Robert Dale's entry in the Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians mentions his arrival at Swan River as a British Army ensign (1829), explorations and land acquisitions, promotion to lieutenant (1832) and return to England (1833). It...

Staging the Southern Continent 1565-1606.
January 1, 2003... The classical idea of Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem ("all the world is a stage") pervades many maps produced during the early modern period. The theatricality of the world is of special interest in relation to the mythical Southern Continent....

Polus Antarcticus: a catalogue of four states.
January 1, 2003... This article deals with the correct identification of the four states of the Hondius map Polus Antarcticus and corrects a number of mis-identifications of these states by various authors. ********** The "Polus Antarcticus" series of...

Preface.
January 1, 2003... This issue of The Globe is the first fully digital issue. Not only were all papers and illustrations supplied by authors in digital format, but the entire issue has been delivered to our printers (University of Melbourne Print Centre) in...