Avstraliia

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1 map : Colour lithograph map folding map illustrations ; 25 x 34 cm From the Russian edition of the Brockhaus and Efron New Encyclopedic Dictionary, a comprhensive multi-volume encyclopedia in Russian which was published in imperial Russia between 1890-and 1907 s a joint venture of Leipzig and St. Petersburg publishers. This map dates to the first years of Federation or slightly earlier. What is now the Northern Territory is marked as Alexandra Land and is shown as part of South Australia, Alexandra Land was the name given to the northern part of South Australia by the explorer John McDouall Stuart after he crossed the Australian continent from Adelaide to the Arafura Sea in 1862. The name honoured Princess Alexandra of Denmark, who married Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, in 1863. The name - although unofficial - was used on some maps up unitl 1908, when the Northern Territory of South Australia came under Commonwealth jurisdiction. Note also that on this map Darwin is named Palmerston (the township changed its name in 1911).