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Topographic map collection

The map collection has a large number of topographic maps which are catalogued by country and scale. A pictorial view of the area covered in each of these categories can be viewed by clicking on the icon in the table below under the ‘Index map' heading.

Series mapping indexes

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Country Scale Series details Listing Qty Production date Index map
World 1:14 000 000 Series: 1150 US Defence Mapping Agency  4 1980 - 1982
  1:12 233 000 US Navy Hydrographic   12 1961
  1:11 000 000 Series: 1142 US Defence Mapping Agency  6 1972
  1:10 000 000 Carte Generale du Monde  12 1963 - 1968
  1:5 000 000 American Geographical Society (AGS aeronautical)  7 1964
  1:5 000 000 Series: 1106 & 1204 US Army Map Service  13 1949 - 1952
  1:5 000 000 GNC - Global Navigation and Planning Chart  10 1968 - 2000
  1:5 000 000 USAF - Aeronautical Planning Charts (Antarctica)  6 1954 - 1955
  1:4 000 000 Series: 2957 British GSGS (corresponds with AMS 1202)  17 1931 - 1959
  1:2 000 000 JNC - Jet Navigation Chart (RAAF)  12 1968 - 2000
  1:1 000 000 GSGS 4695 (RAF 1:1,000,000 Aeronautical Chart); GSGS 4622 (WAC R.A.F. 1:1,000,000); ICAO (WAC ICAO 1:1,000,000); RAAF (WAC RAAF 1:1,000,000)  835 1946 - 1980

  1:1 000 000 Series: Operational Navigation Chart (ONC) - Topographical Navigation Chart (TNC)   222 1959 - 1989
  1:1 000 000 Series: International Map of the World (IMW) (Antarctica)   2 1974 - 1978
  1:500 000 Series: Tactical Pilotage Chart (TTC), Topographical Tactical Chart (TPC),
Pilotage Chart (PC)
 216 1968 - 2000
  1:500 000 Series: T.S.O.500, 1404(GSGS 4830)  44 1957 - 1978
  1:250 000 Topographic Series: K502, L500, L5010, L506, L509, L552, L594, N501, N504, R6145, T503, T504, T.S.O.400, U502, U542, W543   608 1949 - 1992
  1:250 000 JOG Series: 1501, 1501AIR   894  
Antarctica 1:1 000 000 World Aeronautical Chart (RAAF/ICAO) ONC  28 1947 - 1959
  1:500 000 Series: 401(DOS 710)   3 1959 - 1963
  1:500 000 US DOI Geological Survey   8 1956
  1:250 000 National Mapping Canberra
D.O.S BAS 250(P)
  31 1962 - 1976
Arctic 1:1 000 000 World Aeronautical Chart (RAAF/ICAO) ONC  28 1947 - 1955
Asia 1:1 500 000 Army Map Service   29 1943
Australia 1:1 250 000 Australia's Great Desert Tracks   6 2007 - 2009
  1:1 000 000 World Aeronautical Chart (RAAF/ICAO) ONC  83 1955 - 1980
  1:1 000 000 International Map of the World (IMW)  52 1972 - 1982
  1:1 000 000 Australian Geographical Series (AGS)  66 1952 - 1962
  1:250 000 Series: Natmap 250   507 1999 - 2007
  1:250 000 Series: Bathymetric  112 1976 - 1989
  1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR  57 1976 - 1991
  1:100 000 National Topographic Map Series: R611, R621, R641   1642 - 2006
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Botswana 1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR  14 1968 - 1979
Brunei 1:500 000 Series: Sarawak No. 8   1 1964
  1:50 000    6 1962 - 1965
Burma 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: U542, L509   43 1955-1967
  1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR   12 1967 - 1995
Cambodia 1:400 000 Carte routiere de l'Indochine   6 1945 - 1951
  1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR   11 1965 - 1967
  1:100 000 U.T.M.  83 2002
  Various Geographical and Road Network - Province   24 2010-2011
Caribbean Countries various Barbados, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, St Christopher & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent   39 1955 - 1972
China 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: U502   24 1954 - 1965
  1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR   205 1966 - 1974
Cook Islands 1:25 000 NZMS Series: 272/8  13 1983 - 1989
Easter Island 1:25 000 AMS T461   1 1968
East Timor 1:1 000 Digo Photomap Series   22 2000 -
Fiji 1:500 000 Series: NZMS 242  1 1980
  1:250 000 Series: X552(DOS 648), Plans 1969  6 1966 - 1989
  1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501  18 1969 - 1970
  1:50 000 Series: 31  80 1985 - 2004
  1:50 000 Series: X754
Series: X755
 34
13
1958 - 1967
1961 - 1962
French Polynesia            
Society Islands 1:40 000 Institut Geographique National  10 1955 - 1958
Hong Kong 1:50 000 Series: HM50CL 2 1978
  1:25 000 Series: L882   2 1970
  1:20 000 Series: HM20C   16 1975 - 1988
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India 1:1 000 000 National Atlas of India: Population, Transport and Tourism  9 1959 - 1960
  1:250 000 Service Geographique D'Etat   147 1974 - 1998
  1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: U502   234 1953 - 1962
  1:50 000 Service Geographique D'Etat   28 1974 - 1992
  1:25 000 Service Geographique D'Etat   5 1986 - 1987
Indonesia 1:250 000 Peta Rupabumi Indonesia  114 1993 - 2004
  1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: L5010, T503, T504   98 1959 - 1971
  1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR 28 1966 - 1972
All Islands - Lombok to Timor 1:250 000 Series: T551 Lesser Sunda Islands  21 1943 - 1945
Bali 1:50 000 Series: Hind 1119   28 1943 - 1945
Ceram 1:100 000 Series: HIND 642   10 1922 - 1946
Irian Jaya 1:250 000 Series: HIND 644  46 1940 - 1947
  1:100 000 Nederlands Nieuw Guinea  164 1955 - 1958
Java 1:500 000     2 1982 - 1989
Java, Madura, Bali 1:250 000 Series: T521  20 1944 - 1946
Kalimantan 1:200 000 Series: HIND 1099, T531, GSGS 4215  51 1943 - 1945
  1:50 000 Peta Rupabumi Indonesia, Western Division Residency, N.E.I.   11 1991
Molukken Islands 1:300 000 Series: AMS T461  2 1943
  1:250 000 Series: T521  2 1943 - 1946
  1:100 000 Series: T662  42 1944
Sulawesi (Celebes) 1:200 000 Series: Netherland East Indies T541 Hind 626
Middle Celebes - Kruijt
 14 1942 - 1946
  1:50 000   384 1991 - 1992
Sumatra 1:250 000 Series: T511, GSGS Series 4550, HIND 1042  80 1944 - 1945
  1:100 000 Series: T618, GSGS 4278, GSGS 4294, T612, T615, HIND 642, HIND 1060  71 1942 - 1961
  1:40 000 Series: T711  9 1943
Sumba 1:100 000    21 1943 - 1945
Timor 1:100 000 Dutch series   19 1924 - 1944
Iraq 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: K502   9 1958 - 1962
Israel 1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR   5 1965 - 1972
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Japan 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: L506
(limited coverage)
  12 1954
  1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR
(limited coverage)
  28  
  1:25 000 Series: L084, L872, L874, L875, L891  462 1944 - 1946  
Jordan 1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501
(limited coverage)
  7 1958
Kiribati 1:50 000 Series: X782(DOS 436), X043(DOS 467P)   2 1984 - 1985
Gilbert, Phoenix & Line Islands 1:25 000
1:15 000
1:10 000
Series: X042(DOS 367P), X042(DOS 467P)   45 1977 - 1996
Korea 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: L552
(limited coverage)
  8 1950
  1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR
(limited coverage)
  12 1978
  1:50 000 Series: L751   23 1945 - 1951
  1:50 000 Series: L752   49 1973 - 1988
Laos 1:400 000 Carte routiere de l'Indochine   11 1945 - 1951
  1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501   20 1954 - 1969
  1:200 000 Service Geographique D'Etat   51 1985 - 1987
Lebanon 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: K502   4 1958
Madascar 1:100 000 Series: Carte de Madagascar  351 1931 - 1966  
Malaysia 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: L5010, T503   21 1964 - 1968
Sarawak 1:500 000 Series: Sarawak No. 8   2  
  1:50 000 Series: T735, DCS 33  42 1950 - 1967
Malaya


Sabah
1:25 000 Series: GSGS 4686, HIND 609, L8010,
Survey Department, Federation of Malaya

Series: T833


124


29
1951 - 1967


1964


Sabah 1:5 000 DCS Series 31, 31A, 37, 38 Borneo  24 1950 - 1954  
Mariana Is 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: W543   5 1955
Mozambique 1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501 AIR
(limited coverage)
  6 1965 - 1979
Myanmar (Burma) 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: U542   26 1947 - 1967
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Namibia 1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR
(limited coverage)
 9 1972 - 1973
Nepal 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: U502
(limited coverage)
  8 1954
New Caledonia 1:200 000 Institut Geographique National  5 1965 - 1966
  1:50 000 Institut Geographique National  38
18
1954 - 1956
1988 - 1993
New Zealand 1:250 000 Series: NZMS 18  25 1958 - 1972
  1:25 000 Series: NZMS 2  60 1953 - 1963
  1:25 000 Series: NZMS 272 - Antipodes I, Bounty Is, Campbell I, Snares Is, Raoul I  5 1978 - 1986
Nigeria 1:100 000 Federal Surveys, Nigeria
(limited coverage)
 6 1953 - 1962  
  1:50 000 Northern Nigerian Survey,
Federal Surveys, Nigeroia: DOS 430
 75 1957 - 1967  
Pakistan 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: U502   53 1954 - 1958
Papua New Guinea 1:1 000 000 See Australia 1:1 000 000 series'
for PNG 1:1 000 000 maps
       
  1:500 000 US Army Map Service  31 1942
  1:500 000 Thematic Map Series  63 1971 - 1987
  1:250 000 Series: T504, Base Topo  71 1959 - 1968
  1:250 000 PNG Geological series,
New Guinea Geological series
 25 1968 - 1974
  1:250 000 USAF AAC (aeronautical)  52 1956 - 1958
  1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR  73 1967 - 1981
  1:100 000 Series: T601, T683 282 1969 - 1982
  1:50 000 Series: T702, T784, T795, T796, T797, X713, TPNG001, Vegetation 189 1963 - 1997
  1:25 000 Series: PNG 141  11 1972
Admiralty Islands 1:25 000 Series: T893  61 1952
Philippines 1:250 000 PCGS  55 1961 - 1965
  1:50 000 Series: 711, 733, 752,  33 1961
Reunion Island 1:50 000 IGN   4 1956 - 1957
Russia 1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501 AIR
(limited coverage)
    1991
  1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: N504   20 1953 - 1961
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Samoa 1:20 000 Series: NZMS 174   54 1976 - 1983
Sarawak & Sabah (Malaysia) 1:250 000 Series: T503, 1501  23 1964 - 1967
  1:50 000 Series: T735, D.C.S.33, N.E.I., Western Division Residency   61  
Solomon Islands 1:150 000 Series: S006, D.O.S. Repro 5   9 1969 - 1975
  1:50 000 Series: X715  124 2006 - 2007
  1:50 000 Series: X711  75 1967 - 1976
  1:50 000 Series: X713, X713(68), X714, DOS 456  128 1958 - 1967
Guadalcanal 1:50 000 DCS (Misc.) 91 (sketch maps)   14 1954 - 1955
Florida Group 1:40 000 DCS (Misc.) 224A (sketch maps)   2 1955
South Africa 1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR
(limited coverage)
  8 1966 - 1969
Syria 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: K502   23 1956 - 1958
Taiwan 1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR   3 1975
Thailand 1:250 000 Topographic World 250k Series: L509   40 1954 - 1965
Tokelau 1:25 000 NZMS 272   3 1982 - 1984
Tonga 1:50 000 Kingdom of Tonga 50k series   7 2007
  1:25 000 Series: X872(DOS 337)   23 1975 - 1976
Tuvalu 1:50 000 Series: X041(DOS 468P), X041(DOS 368P), X041(DOS 238P)   8 2007
Vanuatu 1:500 000 AMS X401   4 1944
  1:500 000 IGN Archipel des Nouvelles Hebrides   2 1975
  1:100 000 IGN Archipel des Nouvelles Hebrides   11 1964 - 1968
  1:50 000 Series: X721  62 2007
  1:50 000 IGN Carte de la Melanesie, [New Hebrides]/Service topographique (RASC reprint)  18 1960 - 1982
Vietnam 1:400 000 Carte routiere de l'Indochine   17 1945 - 1951
  1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501 AIR   13 1967 - 1992
  1:100 000 Series: L7014   171 2000
  1:50 000
1:25 000
Vietnamese Series   171 2000
Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) 1:250 000 JOG World 250k Series: 1501, 1501 AIR   30 1965 - 1979
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AAC Aeronautical Approach Chart
AGS Australian Geographical Series
AMS Army Map Service US Army
APC Aeronautical Planning Charts
CAO Civil Aviation Organisation
DCS Directorate of Colonial Surveys
DOI US Department of Interior
DOS Government of the United Kingdom (Directorate of Overseas Surveys)
GNC Global Navigation and Planning Chart (USAF)
GSGS Geographical Section, General Staff (Great Britain War Office)
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation
IGN Institut Geographique National (France)
JNC Jet Navigation Chart (RAAF)
JOG Joint Operations Graphic
NAMRIA National Mapping & Resource Information Authority, Philippines
NEI Netherland East Indies
NMP New Guinea Preliminary Detail Plot
NZMS New Zealand Map Service
ONC Operational Navigation Chart (USAF)
PC Pilotage Chart (USAF)
PCGS Philippines Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey
PNTMS Philippines National Topographic Map Service
RASC Royal Australian Survey Corps
TNC RAF Topographic Navigation Chart
TPC Tactical Pilotage Chart
TPNG Territory of Papua New Guinea
TTC Topographic Tactical Chart
WAC World Aeronautical Chart

Updated:  1 June 2012/Responsible Officer:  CartoGIS Coordinator, CartoGIS, CAP /Page Contact:  Web Manager