[AUSTRALIA-VIC] Port Phillip to Gabo Island Compiled from the Latest Admiralty Surveys

Description

Scarce hydrographic chart extending from Port Phillip, Victoria to Green Cape, New South Wales, first issued in 1902, this map has additional corrections up to 1941. Coastal profiles at top.

The regular updating of Hydrographic charts by the Hydrographic Office was to ensure that commanders of ships, pilots and other mariners were able to have the most to up to date information available to safely navigate foreign waters and ports as new information of changes to sea depths, sand bars, wrecks or other any other pertinent nautical information that could hinder passage became available. As updated charts were offered for sale, the earlier outdated charts in the hands of mariners, pilots, ships owners and sailors were invariably discarded, subsequently making all British Admiralty issued hydrographic charts of the period rare.