ABSTRACT
This chapter interrogates the mechanics of transglobal navigation and identifies how the ports of Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town are cited repeatedly in the diaries and sketchbooks of the nineteenth-century travelers. Travelers to the Antipodes acquired urban knowledge by exposure to different places as a result of military service in Britain's colonial empire. The cities and gardens of Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro gave travelers a potent vision of what the cities they were about to create could be like. Southbound travelers no doubt found the idea of a major garden in the heart of the old colonial city an appealing prospect, and this was variously translated into the Australasian context. Upon arriving in the new colonies, travelers encountered the often harsh specificities of the New World, and combined multiple influences in the construction and organization of their settlements.
