Corporate Body

Australian Institute of Cartographers (1923 - ?)

From
1923
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Functions
Association, Society or membership organisation, Surveying or Mapping and Education
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital City

Summary

The Australian Institute of Cartographers was founded in Victoria in 1923. The Institute aimed to improve the knowledge and standards of cartography. In 1978 the Institute had a membership of 1113 people. It was still in existence in the early 1980s.

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260