Western New Guinea Navigation Chart, 1:2,315,000

Component identifier:

Item 9

Content Summary:

Map in green, blue, purple, black and white on grid. Mercator Projection and Equatorial Scale. Map on grid, with magnetic variation shown in purple, curved, dotted lines. Shows aerodromes, emergency landing grounds, alighting areas (with facilities), rotating airway lights, unlit and lit obstructions, radio facilities, railway and light railway, main and secondary roads, tracks, altitude, contours, power transmission lines, telegraph lines, homesteads, outcamps, outstations, yards, windmills, weirs, locks, marine light, edge of timber, bores, wells, tanks, dams, soaks, waterholes, rockholes, claypans, springs, marshes or swamps, mangroves, watercourses, shoals, marine sands , reefs, positions doubtful and plantations. Shows key to adjoining sheets. Notes "For use in daylight or under red light." Notes "Green tint represents high ground and does not necessarily imply presence of timber." Notes "ALL SERVICE USERS OF THIS MAP are required to make necessary corrections and return it to R.A.A.F. Headquarters through the usual channels. NOTE: Adequate surveys of the areas covered by this sheet have not been made. SPOT HEIGHTS MAY THEREFORE BE INACCURATE." Bottom left corner shows L.H.Q/267/1645. Verso annotated in blue pen with "F/L B. Deck. Biak - Hollandia. Merauke." On sheet 54 x 74 cm.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received by the National Library of Australia Maps section from Patricia Braga - whose great aunt was Florence S. H. Young, the founder of South Sea Evangelical Mission - in April 2007, on behalf of Pioneers Australia (formerly South Sea Evangelical Mission).

Names:

Braga, Patricia

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