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Abyssinia
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Title
Abyssinia
Creator
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section.
Subject
Ethiopia--Maps
Description
Map showing Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, and international, intercolonial, provincial, district boundaries, with place names, railways, with gauge in metres written along the line, under construction, projected, roads suitable for motor traffic, suitable for carts, tracks, telegraphs or telephones, telegraphs or telephones along roads or tracks, boundaries: names of: provinces, frontier districts, localities, mountain ranges, peaks, valleys, capes, islands, tribes, towns of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th importance, rivers, unsurveyed, canals, marshes and swamps, plains liable to inundation, contours are at 200 & 500 metres & thence at 500 metre interval, geodetic trigonometrical stations, altitudes in metres, depths in metres, well, springs, waterholes, pools, historical ruins, wireless telegraph stations, limits of navigation, scale of nautical miles, list of authorities, conversion table from metres to feet, altitude tint chart, key to magnetic variation, key to relative reliabitlity, reference to air information. Relief shown by form lines, hachures, tinted shading, height in metres. Colour 3rd edition. Scale 1 : ,2000 000.
Publisher
University of Cape Town
Contributor
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey, heliographers. (contributor)
Date
1937
Type
map
Format
image/jpeg, 46 x 68 cm. on sheet 64 x 85 cm.
Identifier
islandora:19141
Source
University of Cape Town. Libraries. Special Collections.
Language
Relation
Africa 1 : 2.000.000, N C B 36 - 37
Coverage
Ethiopia, N 12°00'--N 04°00'/E 30°00'--E 42°00'
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This item is the property of the University of Cape Town Libraries. For permission to reproduce or quote, please contact the Special Collections of the University of Cape Town Libraries.
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