(of land) not yet examined and recorded on a map, plan, etc.
there are tracts of rainforest still unsurveyed
areas of unsurveyed habitat
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Legally all were trespassers, for the land was unsurveyed and the time of Indian occupancy under the treaties had not yet expired.
This still leaves vast tracts of unsurveyed countryside to look at and, no doubt, some important plants waiting to be discovered.
Boundaries have been drawn mostly in the mid-hills and low-lying plains, leaving boundaries in the mountainous areas in both east and west unsurveyed.
Problems such as physical isolation, unsurveyed land, and food and labour shortages impeded initial development and threatened the settlement's survival.
My generation was lucky to start climbing when horizons were wide and there were still unsurveyed areas on maps.
He negotiated a compromise, under which the Penns agreed to taxation of improved lands but not those unsurveyed.
Over the next nine months his party explored and mapped approximately 38,000 miles of hitherto unsurveyed country in western Tibet and Rudok.
A further important measure was the Crown Lands Occupation Act of 1836, which provided for the issuing of occupation licences for pastoral purposes on unsurveyed crown land.
A construction company tearing into unsurveyed land may even destroy unrecognized ancient cities with their bulldozers.
The adjacent waters are "unsurveyed", with numerous reefs not shown on the charts.