Our Maps collection includes over 600,000 maps, from early European charts to current mapping of Australia, in print and digital form. All online maps are now freely available for download, in high resolution. You can find:

• 200,000 post-1900 Australian topographic maps published by national and state mapping authorities
• property and subdivision maps for each Australian state and territory - useful for family history research
• thematic maps of land use, water and other resource management, geology and mining, transport, roads, planning and infrastructure, military mapping
• 800,000 aerial photographs of Australia, Papua New Guinea and Antarctica
• overseas maps, emphasising regions near Australia
• street directories, atlases, gazetteers and reference material  

Highlights

• Norman B. Tindale’s iconic map showing the distribution of Aboriginal tribes of Australia
• Terra Australis - the earliest Dutch charting of the land that became Australia
• The Martini Atlas - the first European atlas of China 
• British Admiralty charts of Australian waters, 1814-1861 - the circumnavigation of Australia 
• Plan of Queanbeyan, County of Murray - plan of the town of Queanbeyan, showing the first Torrens Title purchases 
• Real Estate Plans of New South Wales - part of the immense J. A. Ferguson collection of property maps 
• Walter Burley Griffin - unravel the fledgling development of our nation’s capital with maps illustrating Griffin’s vision of Canberra
• First World War trench maps - Military maps of Gallipoli, Belgium and France, Egypt and Palestine
• By rail or road - an assortment of transport maps, 1850-1950 
• Attack Pacific! - Japanese pictorial maps of Australia, Asia and the Pacific, 1940-45 
• Australia 1:253,440 - detailed topographic maps prepared by Cartographic Section, Aust. Survey Corps, 1940-1960