Full title: [Collection of 56 maps used by Ross and Keith Smith with Sergeant Wally Shiers during first aeroplane flight England to Australia, Nov. - Dec. 1919] [cartographic material] / Captain Ross Smith.

Author/creator: Smith, Keith Macpherson Sir, 1890-1955, Smith, Ross Macpherson, Sir, 1892-1922.

Date: 1919..

Call Numbers: SAFE/MT3 118gmof/1919/1, MT3 118gmof/1919/1, Z/MTA3 118gmof/1919/1, MTA3 118gmof/1919/1

Record Identifier: 74VKzq87rZZl

Language: English

Formats: Maps

Contents: , 56 maps : col. ; on sheets 138 x 78 cm. or smaller., [Map no. 1] Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. 1/4 in. to one mile series. 3rd ed. Sheet 12 entitled "England, South East and London". 1920 -- [Map no. 2] Ordnance Survey. Europe 1:1 000 000. Provisional ed. (North M 31) entitled "Paris". 1916 -- [Map no. 3] Carte de France à 1:200 000. Feuille no.9 entitled "Amiens". Compiled and published by Service Géographique de l'Armée -- [Map no. 4] Carte de France à 1:200 000. Feuille no.16 entitled "Paris". Compiled and published by Service Géographique de l'Armée -- [Map no. 5] Carte de France à 1:200 000. Feuille no.25 entitled "Melun". Compiled and published by Service Géographique de l'Armée -- [Map no. 6] Carte de France à 1:200 000. Feuille no.33 entitled "Orléans". Compiled and published by Service Géographique de l'Armée -- [Map no.7] Carte de France à 1:200 000. Feuille no.40 entitled "Bourges". Compiled and published by Service Géographique de l'Armée -- [Map no.8] Carte de France à 1:200 000. Feuille no.34 entitled "Dijon". Compiled and published by Service Géographique de l'Armée -- [Map no.9] Carte de France à 1:200 000. Feuille no.41 entitled "Autun". Compiled and published by Service Géographique de l'Armée -- [Map no.10] Carte de France à 1:200 000. Feuille no.47 entitled "Macon". Compiled and published by Service Géographique de l'Armée -- [Map no.11] Carte de France à 1:200 000. Feuille no.53 entitled "Lyon". Compiled and published by Service Géographique de l'Armée -- [Map n.12] Istituto Geografico Militare. F°6° entitled "Lyon" 1:500 000. Edizione 1914 -- [Map no.13] Istituto Geografico Militare. F°11° entitled "Marseille". 1:500 000. Edizione 1894 -- [Map no. 14] Ordnance Survey. Europe 1:1 000 000. Provisional edition. (North K 32) entitled "(Florence) Firenze". 1916 -- [Map no. 15] Ordnance Survey. Europe 1:1 000 000. Second provisional edition (North L. 32) entitled "Milano" -- [Map no.16] Istituto Geografico Militare. F°13° entitled "Firenze". 1:500 000. Edizione 1914 -- [Map no.17] Istituto Geografico Militare. F°18° entitled "Roma-Perugia". 1:500 000. Edizione 1914 -- [Map no.18] Istituto Geografico Militare. F°24° entitled "Napoli". 1:500 000. Edizione 1914 -- [Map no.19] Istituto Geografico Militare. F°25° entitled "Potenza-Bari". 1:500 000. Edizione 1914 -- [Map no. 20] Ordnance Survey. Europe 1:1 000 000. Second provisional edition (North J 34) entitled "Athenai". 1917 -- [Map no.21] Stanford's map of part of the Turkish Empire with the Balkan Peninsula and Lower Egypt. 1914 -- [Map no. 22] Egypt - Survey Dept. International map. Africa 1:1 000 000. Prov. issue North H.35 entitled "Alexandria" 1913 -- [Map no. 23] Asia 1:1 000 000. Prov. ed. North H-36 entitled "Cairo" Compiled at the Royal Geographical Society under the direction of the Geographical Section, General Staff. Drawn and printed at the War Office, 1916 -- [Map no. 24] Asia 1:1 000 000. Prov. ed. North I-36 entitled "Beirut" same imprint as for map no.23 1916 -- [Map no. 25] Asia 1:1 000 000. North I-37 entitled "Esh Sham (Damascus)" same imprint 1918 -- [Map no. 26] Asia 1:1 000 000. Prov. ed. North I-38 entitled "Baghdad" same imprint 1916 -- [Map no. 27] Asia 1:1 000 000. North H-38 entitled "Basra", same imprint 1918 -- [Map no. 28] Asia 1:1 000 000. North H-39 entitled "Bushire" same imprint 1918 -- [Map no. 29] Southern Asia Series: southern Persian sheet -- Survey of India Office, 1912 -- [Map no. 30] Southern Asia Series: Baluchistant sheet -- Survey of India Office, 1914 -- [Map no. 31] India and adjacent countries 1: 8 110 080. Shows R.A.F. Stations, prepared landing grounds, landing grounds under construction and landing grounds under consideration -- [Map no. 32] India and adjacent countries (Prov. issue) sheets nos. 35 and 36. Survey of India Office, 1912 -- [Map no. 33] India and adjacent countries (Prov. issue) sheet no.40. 1:1 000 000. Survey of India Office, 1908 -- [Map no. 34] India and adjacent countries (Prov. issue) sheet no.45. 1:1 000 000. Survey of India Office, 1912 -- [Map no. 35] India and adjacent countries sheet no.53. 1:1 000 000. Survey of India Office, 1915 -- [Map no. 36] India and adjacent countries sheet no.63. 1:1 000 000. Survey of India Office, 1916 -- [Map no. 37] India and adjacent countries: Agra sheet no.54. 1:1 000 000. Survey of India Office, 1918 -- [Map no. 38] India and adjacent countries: Cuttack sheet no.73. 1:1 000 000. Survey of India Office, 1917 -- [Map no. 39] India and adjacent countries: Katmandu sheet no.72. 1:1 000 000. Survey of India Office, 1917 -- [Map no. 40] India and adjacent countries: Calcutta sheet no.79. 1:1 000 000. Survey of India Office, 1917 -- [Map no. 41] India and adjacent countries: Culttack sheet no.79. 1:1 000 000. Survey of India Office, 1917 -- [Map no. 42] India and adjacent countries. (Prov. issue) sheet no.84. 1:1 000 000. Survey of India Office, 1904 -- [Map no. 43] Burma 1:2 027 520. Survey of India Office, 1918 -- [Map no. 44] Map of Burma in Burmese -- [Map no. 45] Small section of map of Burma -- [Map no. 46] Map of British Malaya 1916, published under the direction of the Surveyor General. Kuala Lumpur -- [Map no. 47] Algemeene overzichtskaart 1:2 500 000 -- [Map no. 48] Part of a Dutch map showing North Java. 1:5 000 000 -- [Map no. 49] Part of a Dutch chart "Eilanden en vaarwaters Beoosten Java". 1:1 000 000. 1912 corrected to 1919 -- [Map no. 50] Part of Dutch chart showing northern Sumatra and Malaya -- [Map no. 51] Part of Dutch map showing central and southern Java -- [Map no. 52] Part of Dutch map showing part of Java. 1:500 000 -- [Map no. 53] Aust. north coast "Groote Eylandt to Cape Ford". British Admiralty chart no. 1044. Corrected to 1918 -- [Map no. 54] Part of a Dutch chart corrected to 1919. Showing Flores and Timor -- [Map no. 55] Part of a Dutch chart showing Java, Timor, Darwin etc. 1914 -- [Map no. 56] Part of British Admiralty Chart no.2558 entitled "Chart of the World"

Publishers: 1919.

Access: Supervised access only by appointment with Maps Section. To preserve the paper copy the aperture card will be issued.

Notes: The planned as well as the actual route shown; pencil notes added during flight. Their aircraft, the Vickers Vimy was one of a new generation of heavy bombers which were designed to attack German strategic targets but which failed to see active service during the First World War. It gained immortality by its successful post-war pioneering long-distance flights. To the West of Australia there is the following mention in red. 11.500 miles, 135 hrs in air and 27 days 20 hrs. Used in cockpit during the prize-winning 27 days and 20 hours en route London to Darwin. Additional notes: List of "Maps used by Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith during their London-Australia flight, Nov. - Dec. 1919", available at: MTA3 118gmof/1919/1.

Additional physical form availability note: Online at the State Library of NSW. Online at the State Library of NSW.

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DDC: MT3 118gmof/1919/1

MMS ID: 991023371269702626