Map of South Australia

This lithographed map of part of South Australia shows only Adelaide and surrounding regions and Kangaroo Island. The eastern edge of Yorke Peninsula is visible. The surveyed portions of South Australia to that time, including New Silesia (now the Barossa Valley) and Angas Park, have been highlighted. There is an attractive vignette of Adelaide, showing North Terrace and the adjacent parklands, with an Aboriginal encampment on the River Torrens and a bridge.

The pencilled notes are presumed to be by George Fife Angas. These notes provide some detail of early Adelaide: 1660 houses chiefly of brick and stone, 16 flour mills, 47 schools, 37 churches and chapels and the number of criminal convictions in the young colony. Angas had sent this copy of the map to Dr Dick in Dundee in 1844.

George Fife Angas was a promoter of the new colony of South Australia and with a number of business colleagues formed the South Australian Company and bought land which enabled the colony to come into being. He was instrumental in persuading a large group of German Lutherans to migrate and advanced money to enable this. Many of these migrants settled on Angas's own land in the colony, including in New Silesia and at Angas Park.

Angas himself migrated to to South Australia in 1851, and established a home at Angaston in the Barossa Valley.

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