We hold 200,000+ Australian topographic maps from 1900 onward. This guide helps you find current and historical maps at various scales in our collection.

We hold a national series of aerial photographs of Australia collected between 1928 and 1988. Use this guide to help you find and access photography of Australian states and territories in our collection and beyond.  

Enjoy a glimpse of the Library's extensive maps collection.

The Library has recently acquired two 17th century globe gores by Vincenzo Coronelli.

The National Library's Asian language collections focus on contemporary Asia from the 19th century onwards.

The map includes details of the first sighting of Tasmania by Europeans and the first mapping of New Zealand

View historical maps overlaid on a modern map

A summary of copyright and rights in the Maps Collection.

Paintings, drawings, sketchbooks and manuscripts by George French Angas

Papers, including manuscripts on Philippine ethnography, books and pamphlets in various languages on a wide range of subjects with a focus on the Philippines, photographs and printed and manuscript maps collected by Henry Otley Beyer.

Family papers, maps of the Hong Kong and Macau region, pictures, photographs and a large collection of books and pamphlets predominantly historical works, particularly histories of Portugal, the Portuguese colonies, China and Japan

722 books, pamphlets, leaflets, manuscripts, newspapers and maps, mostly written in Chinese. Mainly Christian works, plus works on the Chinese language, reprints of classical writings and works relating to the Taiping Rebellion of 1850-64