Overland Telegraph Line through Northern Territory of Australia.
Colour-printed antique map c1886 with the Overland Telegraph Line through the Northern Territory from the border of South Australia, and interesting topographical comment and record of settlement through the Territory at that time. Published by The Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company Limited, Sydney and Melbourne for The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, published between 1886 and 1888 to commemorate one hundred years since the First Fleet arrival at Port Jackson and settlement at Sydney Cove.
This is the finest antique map ever done of the Northern Territory.
This is a full pag map measuring with horizontal fold, as issued, is 43 x 33 cm (17 x 13 inches). To map border measures 36.5 x 28 cm