General map of Africa

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Title: General map of Africa
Creator: Johnston, Keith, 1844-1879.
Subject: Africa -- Maps.
Description: Map of the continent of Africa showing the whole of southern Europe (including the southernmost sections of Cornwall, Devonshire, Sussex and Kent in England) and the Middle East and Asia to a point west of the Persian Gulf and the Kizil Kum desert. The map shows political boundaries, villages and towns, mountains, rivers, lakes and the islands in the Atlantic and Indian oceans from the Azores to Seychelles (in the north-west and north-east respectively) and Tristan da Cunha to Mauritius (in the south-west and south-east respectively)., Relief shown by hachures and some spot heights., Scales in English miles, geographical miles, French kilometres and German geographical miles., Below the map is a vertical section plan showing "Commander Cameron's section of his route accross [sic] Africa.", Map folds into an outer cover., W. & A.K. Johnston Limited.
Publisher: University of Cape Town Libraries, South Africa
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Date: 1879
Type: map
Format: image/jpeg, 1 map : col., dissected and mounted on linen ; 127 x 107 cm. folded to 28 x 22 cm.
Identifier: islandora:19756
Source: aslmaps_bmx_6_a_1_538.jpg
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Relation: Aleph: 891511, BMF 6.a.1 (538)
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