Australian Pilot

This title is related to nautical issues, and is not related to aviation in Australia

Australian Pilot is a series of editions of Sailing Directions to navigators in Australian coastal waters.

Most editions were published by the British Admiralty Hydrographic Department.

The publication was required to be used in conjunction with the British Admiralty Notices to Mariners, nautical charts and any supplements produced.[1]

The supplements and annual updates were given the same name as the publications.[2]

The first edition appeared in 1916.[3] The 9th edition appeared in 2004.[4]

The different editions included variations of the number of volumes.[5]

Australia had its own Australian Hydrographic Service created in 1920, but the British nautical charts and sailing directions continued to be published after that time. The current Australian version of the Pilot and other relevant information is found in the Marine information manual.[6]

Most states of Australia have developed maritime safety maps and guides to their coastline that would complement and include the work of the British Admiralty work.[7][8][9][10]

A system of guides from the United States also exists for the same waters covered by the Australian Pilot.[11]

Earlier localised guides also existed in some states of Australia.[12]

Earlier regional guides preceded Hydrographic services and relied on collation from ships records.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ Australia. Royal Australian Navy. Hydrographic Service (1970), Catalogue and index of Australian charts and British Admiralty charts of Australian waters, Hydrographic service, Royal Australian Navy, retrieved 14 June 2015
  2. ^ Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept (1917), The Australia pilot, Hydrographic Office, retrieved 14 June 2015
  3. ^ Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept, Australia pilot (1st. ed. / pub. by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty ed.), [s.n.], retrieved 14 June 2015
  4. ^ Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept (2004), Australia pilot. Volume II, South, south-east and east coasts of Australia from Green Cape to Port Jackson including Bass Strait and Tasmania (9th ed.), United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, retrieved 14 June 2015
  5. ^ [1] Trove overview of the editions and volume contents
  6. ^ Australia. Department of Transport (1900), Marine information manual, Australia, Australian Govt. Pub. Service, ISSN 0817-6000
  7. ^ South Australia. Department of Marine and Harbors (1985), The Waters of South Australia a series of charts, sailing notes and coastal photographs, Dept. of Marine and Harbors, South Australia, ISBN 978-0-7243-7603-2
  8. ^ Maritime Safety Queensland (2011), Maritime Safety Queensland's beacon to beacon directory (9th ed.), Maritime Safety Queensland, ISBN 978-0-646-46178-6
  9. ^ Maritime Services Board of New South Wales (1983), Sailing directions : New South Wales coast (10th ed.), The Board, retrieved 14 June 2015
  10. ^ Victoria. Ports and Harbors Division (1970), Sailing directions : Victoria including Bass Strait, [Melbourne], retrieved 14 June 2015
  11. ^ United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic Center; United States. Hydrographic Office. Sailing directions for the southeast coast of Australia (1975), Sailing directions for the southeast coast of Australia : Cape Northumberland to Port Jackson, including Tasmania (Rev. ed.), Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic Center, retrieved 14 June 2015
  12. ^ Bradley, J. J; Marine Board of Launceston (Tas.) (1892), Sailing directions for the River Tamar, Port of Launceston (Port Dalrymple), Marine Board of Launceston, retrieved 14 June 2015
  13. ^ Horsburgh, James (1852), The India directory, or, Directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia and the interjacent ports of Africa and South America : originally compiled from journals of the Honourable Company's ships, and from observations and remarks, resulting from the experience of twenty-one years in the navigation of those seas (6th ed.), Wm. H. Allen & Co, retrieved 14 June 2015