In this episode we navigate heritage maps with maps librarian Katrina Laan.

Katrina shares with us five of her favourite maps including the first printed map of the Pacific in 1601, a 1946 tourist map, the fabulous Thomas Wing’s map of the Kaipara Harbour 1835, early city fire insurance maps 1915 and we learn 'just what is a cadastral map'? Listen in to a lively discussion to learn more about these maps and more.

You can read more here:

https://heritageetal.blogspot.com/2026/03/awekura-maps.html

And check out an earlier podcast on the Wings maps here: https://soundcloud.com/auckland-libraries/chart-of-kaipara-harbour-by-thomas-wing?in=auckland-libraries/sets/real-gold-treasures-of-the

Links to Auckland Libraries Heritage Maps via Kura Heritage Collections online: https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/maps

Maris Pacifici, 1601, Abraham Ortelius, Map 9588

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/maps/id/9743/rec/1

Auckland and environs : sheet no.4., 1924, New Zealand Department of Lands and Survey, Map 77

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/maps/id/1972/rec/2

Tourist map of New Zealand, 1946, New Zealand Government Tourist Department; Map 9091

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/maps/id/9134/rec/1

Chart of the entrance to Kaipara Harbour, Captain Thomas Wing, January, 1836. Map 4613

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/maps/id/1211/rec/3

Fire insurance maps, 1915, Council of Fire and Accident Underwriters' Association of New Zealand, Map 9128

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/maps/id/9340/rec/1