The Surveyor General of Victoria is the person nominally responsible for
government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
surveying
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ca ...
in
Victoria, Australia
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Au ...
. The original duties for the Surveyor General was to measure and determine land grants for settlers in Victoria. The position was created at the time Victoria became a separate colony in 1851 (see
History of Victoria
This article describes the history of the Australian colony and state of Victoria.
Before British colonisation of Australia, many Aboriginal peoples lived in the area now known as Victoria. A couple of years after the first Europeans settled t ...
).
The Surveyor-General of Victoria is the primary government authority on surveying and the cadastre (land property boundaries and tenure).
The Surveying Act 2004, Act 47/2004, Part 6, specifies the appointment, suspension and functions of the Surveyor-General. Note that the act spells "Surveyor-General" with hyphen, which is the conventional spelling.
List of Surveyors General of Victoria
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Lists of British, Australian and New Zealand Surveyors-General, Government Geologists...Retrieved 5 September 2016
Australian Dictionary of Biography Surveyor-General searchRetrieved 14 June 2012
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