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Welcome to XNATMAP
A site for preserving NATMAP's (The Division of National Mapping) history and
maintaining contact with the people who were part of that history.
As the Australian Landsat Station (ALS), later the Australian Centre for Remote
Sensing (ACRES) was part of the Division its history also forms part of this site.
The XNATMAP site will close October 2025 when hosting terminates.
The XNATMAP website is archived in perpetuity under the PANDORA initiative of the National Library of Australia and associated State Libraries. Commenced in 1996, Pandora (Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia) is Australia's web archive; a growing collection of Australian online publications.
As resources permit, current information and some partially completed works will be finalised and uploaded as listed below.
- In May Natmap lost Allan Howard Spowers (1928-2024), in June, Peter Hansford (1943-2024) and recently Sydney Lorrimar (Syd) Kirkby AO, MBE (1933-2024) [no formal funeral to be held] and Reginald C (Reg) Helmore (1942-2024) [https://bare.com.au/tributes/bd370f68-8cd9-4ae6-8f03-d66c35fab4dc]. Our condolences to their families.
- Papers relating to The Boundary Line between South Australia and Victoria was a twenty-eight page document plus two plans, printed and bound in 1874. Only eight hundred copies were produced at that time by John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, for the later consideration of the Victorian Parliament. The history of the contents of these Papers evolved from the efforts in marking the Boundary between the then Colonies of New South Wales and South Australia. The first attempt was in the south, between the Southern Ocean and River Murray, along what was to become the border between Victoria and South Australia and later north of the River Murray to 26 degrees south latitude, between South Australia and New South Wales. Despite ongoing disputation over the Victorian/South Australian results, all those years ago, it is shown that the work of all the Specialists involved used the technology and techniques available to them to achieve the best possible result using the data that was within their control. Had more accurate information been available to them at the time the results would have been different but no less accurate. This extensive review was prepared by Paul Wise.
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