1788 – Establishment of New South Wales under Arthur Phillip. Its jurisdiction covered most of eastern Australia to 135°E.
1825 – Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) separated from New South Wales. The western boundary of New South Wales was extended to longitude 129° East
1836 – The Province of South Australia was established as a planned free-settler colony. Swan River Colony established in 1829, changing its name to Western Australia in 1832.
1851 – Creation of Victoria from the southern districts of New South Wales during the gold rush era.
1859 – Establishment of Queensland from the northern districts of New South Wales, further reducing its extent. Modern day Northern Territory was still under New South Wales until 1863 and under South Australia afterwards.
1911 – Transfer of the Northern Territory from South Australia to the Commonwealth. The western border of South Australia was fixed at 129°E in 1862.
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So weird that New South Wales meant opposite places for a while
In 1836 they were so close to become Romania
NSW in red and Queensland in blue lol
Anti-Welshism
1836 – colony of glorious Romania
New South Wales has the secret weight loss program gyms don’t want you to know.
Just New South Wales losing territory
The story of New South Wales losing territory is what I see here!
Hah, those other guys really kicked new south wales butt!
Tasmania was call Van Dieman’s Land until 1856
Caption should be: the decline and fall of New South Wales
Wasn’t New Zealand part of NSW until it became its own colony?
If you play it in reverse it’s NSW eating the other states
Victoria was dudded. The border was originally planned to follow the Murrumbidgee which is closer to being equidistant from Sydney and Melbourne.
This should be maps without NZ as New Zealand was originally annexed to NSW
Those are the claimed areas but I want to see which areas were actually controlled and colonized.
Fun fact: The NT was part of SA for a while until federation.
i.e. There is a 1863-1911 map where the NT is represented in yellow.
1788 – Wasn’t called Australia. It was New Holland.
Noting that the initial choice of the western border of NSW at 135E and it’s later change to 129E are due to interpretations of the 1494 treaty of Tordesillas between Portugal and Spain where they divided the world between them. England didn’t want to go against the Dutch/Portugese and so stopped their claim initially at the Spanish interpretation of the line at 135E and later at the Portugese interpretation of the line at 129E before finally claiming Western Australia separately.
It is missing central Australia which was a separate territory from 1927-31
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Australia_(territory)
r/mapswithoutnz
Nz Became seperate from nsw in 1841
New Guinea was part of Australia in 1911…
(It was originally a colony of Queensland).
Why didn’t NSW wage a war against other states to reclaim what is theirs? Are they stupid?
Worth noting that Australian states are administrative divisions, they have their own governments that run hospitals etc, but there is nothing deeply cultural dividing them (at least not for the non-Indigenous population). They could all merge tomorrow and life wouldn’t change.
Need to go back to 1788 territories.
You forgot the bit where New Zealand was part of NSW (1788) and when South Australia included the Northern Territory (1863 – 1911)
We gotta call this BS out – before the gold rush, colonial power was mostly limited to the coast and a few waterways (except TAS). All the rest of the land was well outside colonial control
Peek colonial borders at 1859
NSW at one point not only included most of Australia, but also New Zealand!