After more than four years' work, the final topographic maps, covering Australia, New Zealand and ... "The crescent-shaped uniform green region in the south, just left of centre, is the Nullarbor ...

South America ... a coloured world map on a scale of 1 to 50,000,000 compiled by R. R. Platt shows the distribution of official topographic maps as available at the outbreak of war in 1939.

In a controversial move, the nation's geographic agency, Geosciences Australia, has decided to stop printing official topographic paper maps ... lives in a rural area south-west of Sydney ...

Bushwalkers and map sellers say the decision to stop printing and selling topographic maps for Australia will put people's safety at risk and impact on our understanding of remote Australia.

There are dog-legs, curves and even boundaries that do not line up in the borders of South Australia ... Although straight on a flat map, the northern edge is actually periodically angled to ...