TAA Covers The Continent Australia Map
Original vintage travel advertising poster - TAA Covers the Continent / The Network of Trans-Australia Airlines - featuring a midcentury style map of Australia with colours highlighting the six states and images including a black swan and shell in Western Australia, a smiling sun in the centre of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and South Australia, a pineapple in Queensland and a Merino sheep in New South Wales, the routes shown in black lines with white dots connecting various cities including Perth, Darwin, Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart, Cairns, Sydney, Brisbane and Alice Springs in the outback, the Indian Ocean, Pacific and Southern Ocean marked on the background with a fruit tree and TAA logo in a compass point below, the bold title text on the border with an image of a propeller plane. Founded in 1946 Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA) was one of Australia's two major domestic airlines until merging with Qantas in 1992. Map designed by Max Robinson. Paper sculpture by Don Poelsma. Printed by F.W. Niven Pty Ltd in Melbourne. Good condition, restored tears, backed on linen.
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