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1852 map of eastern Victoria, showing seven proposed counties 1877 map of the counties of Victoria. Following the unauthorised settlement of settlers from Tasmania (then called Van Diemen's Land) in the future Melbourne in 1835, in September 1836, Governor Bourke established the Port Phillip District of New South Wales.
Further responsibilities of the Surveyor-General were transferred to Land Victoria business units, viz. Land Information Group (mapping, geodetic, survey control and calibration standards) and Land Registry (Crown Land Records). Land Victoria was a new Division, under the then Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
Assisted immigration was frequently associated with land settlement in Victoria and by 1906 the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey had become responsible for immigration in connection with land settlement and the augmenting of the labour force.
In Tasmania, Crown land is managed under the Crown Lands Act 1976. In Queensland, Unallocated State Land is managed under the Land Act 1994. In South Australia, the relevant Act is the Crown Land Management Act 2009. In Victoria, it is the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 and the Land Act 1958. [4]
The original plan of subdivision for Part 2 of the Strathallan Estate in Macleod, Victoria, Australia. The Strathallan Estate traces its origins to the colonial land sales in the Colony of Victoria, when Crown Portions 9 and 10 in the Parish of Keelbundoora, County of Burke (covering modern-day Macleod and Bundoora) were sold to Neil McLean on 5 February 1840 for £816.
Map of the Springthorpe Estate in Macleod, Victoria, Australia. The Springthorpe Estate traces its origins to the colonial land sales in the Colony of Victoria, when Crown Portions 9 and 10 in the Parish of Keelbundoora, County of Burke (covering modern-day Macleod and Bundoora) were sold to Neil McLean on 5 February 1840 for £816.
Victoria is divided into 37 counties, roughly 40 mi × 40 mi (64 km × 64 km) in size, subdivided into 2,914 parishes. [37] Parishes were subdivided into sections of various sizes for sale as farming allotments, or designated as a town and then divided into sections and these subdivided into crown allotments.
In 1848 in a list of Crown Lands “beyond the settled districts” at Port Phillip (Western Port District) there were three pastoral runs in the vicinity of Mount Blackwood: 'Cupumnimnip, Mount Blackwood', 15,000 acres, leased by Sir John Lewes (per James Simpson); 'Pentland Hills', 14,000 acres leased by Charles McLachlan; 'Upper Weirriby' (or 'Grey’s old run'), 6,500 acres, leased by ...