Item MM 40164 Photograph - Survey Tower, Possibly on Mount Macedon, Victoria, circa 1900

Summary

Survey tower erected for the Geodetic Survey of Victoria. This is possibly the tower on Mount Macedon.

A sketch of the tower at Mount Macedon by Samuel Calvert is printed in Illustrated Australian News, 25 Feb 1874.

Photograph in a photograph album used at Melbourne Observatory, late 19th century. The photographs show the main Melbourne Observatory building, Great Melbourne Telescope, 8 inch transit telescope, recording equipment, observatories in other cities and countries, astronomers, astronomical photographs of sun and stars.