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Robert Hoddle: Pioneer surveyor, 1794-1881.
Summary: This paper, by the great granddaughter of the surveyor Robert Hoddle, outlines Hoddle's Australian experiences and discusses some of the maps he produced.
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In early colonial Australia, the role of the surveyor was central to the expansion of settlement, even to the extension of government itself. The conflicting demands for topographical and cadastral mapping placed huge stress on the surveyors of the period. To explore and map this new territory, its mountains, rivers and plains, was a prime aim. But from the 1820s on, pressure by the pastoralists to take up land in areas under government control--'limits of location' as it was ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Robert Hoddle: Pioneer surveyor, 1794-1881.