1958 – Britain transfers Christmas Island to Australia, it becomes an external territory. 1862 – Some of New South Wales' northern central mainland Australian territory is transferred to Queensland. The Australian Division organises a biennial Conference in cooperation with The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology and Engineers Australia to allow delegates to be involved in discussions concerning the latest developments in maritime engineering and technology, both in the defence and commercial shipping sectors. The states and territories of Australia are the second level of government division in Australia, between the federal government and local governments. The external territory of Norfolk Island possessed a degree of self-government from 1979 until 2015. The annual Award is made to the author of the best technical paper presented to the naval architecture community in Australia "  ...Read more about the Walter Atkinson Award, The Bob Campbell Prize, introduced in 2019, is awarded to the person delivering the best presentation of a written paper to the International Maritime Conference. [24] In 2006, the Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Water was considering abolishing Counties and Parishes and using only Lot and Plan numbers to identify parcels of land.[25]. New country and rail road map of New South Wales [cartographic material] : showing rail roads, coach roads, cities, towns &c. 1887. In 1804 Governor King divided Van Diemen's Land into two counties; Buckingham in the south and Cornwall in the north. 1884 – Southeastern New Guinea becomes the independent, 1886 – The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are to be administered by the same Governor as the. [4] The parishes date to the surveys conducted after 1825, with the instructions given to Governor Brisbane on 23 Jun 1825 to divide the colony into counties, hundreds and parishes. The counties appear on some nineteenth century maps of Australia along with counties in other states,[40][41] however it was the land districts which were used for cadastral purposes, and were the equivalent of the counties used in the eastern states. 1955 – Britain transfers the Cocos (Keeling) Islands to Australia, they become an external territory. My Profile 1903 – The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are incorporated into the Straits Settlements. They are, thus, constitutionally part of Australia. [37] For example: "County of Dalhousie, Parish of Lauriston, being 2 hectares, being Crown Allotment 2, Section 40"[38] or "Parish of Ballarat, County of Grant.. Crown Allotment 29, Section 101, Township of Ballarat East.. as shown on Certified Plan No. [36] Parishes were subdivided into sections of various sizes for sale as farming allotments, or designated as a town and then divided into sections and these subdivided into crown allotments. Surrounded by the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia is separated from Asia by the Arafura Sea and Timor Sea, and from New Zealand by the Tasman Sea. Instead the system of land divisions and land districts was used, with most of Perth located in the land districts of Swan, Canning and Cockburn Sound, all in the South West Land Division of Western Australia. Parcels of land in most residential areas are identified with the Deposited Plan or Filed Plan number with an allotment number, for example: "Allotment 20 in Deposited Plan Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3) – SA3s are regional representations of local communities, generally containing similar characteristics, administrative boundaries, and labour markets, each having 30,000–130,000 people.