1102945
- TitleBook number one, Clarence River, from Heads to Brush Grove, 1870
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- Call numberB 453
- Level of descriptionfonds
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April-June 1870 - Type of material
- Reference code1102945
- Physical Description0.4 metres of textual material (1 volume)
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
John Thomas Ewing Gowlland (1838-1874), naval officer was appointed to the Australian survey as chief assistant in 1865. When Captain Sydney retired Gowlland took command of the survey of the New South Wales coast and compiled Admiralty charts of the coast and the tidal waters of the Richmond, Clarence, Hunter and Hawkesbury Rivers. He also surveyed the waters of Port Jackson and made the first plans of Garden Island.
(Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography). - Scope and ContentLabel on front cover reads: "Surveyor John F. Loxton to whom this field book wa shown has identified the notes as being undoubtedly those of Leiut. Gowlland N.R., see also name on last page, 2.10.16, Misc compiling book".
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