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Title: Fort Lamy
Subject: Fort-Lamy (Chad)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Fort Lamy, now known as N'Djamena, in Chad, with international, intercolonial and district boundaries. It also shows place names, salt lakes, rivers and marsh. Pictorial relief. Some colour. Scale 1 : 1 000 000.
Identifier: islandora:19289

Title: Bahr El Ghazal
Subject: Baḥr al Ghazāl Province (Sudan)--Maps, , ,
Description: Map showing Bahr el Ghazal, a region of western South Sudan, and international, intercolonial, provincial, district boundaries, with place names, railways, under construction, projected, roads suitable for motor traffic, suitable for carts, tracks, telegraphs or telephones, telegraphs or telephones along roads or tracks, 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, geodetic trigonometrical stations, altitudes in metres, depths in metres, wells, springs, waterholes, pools, historical ruins, wireless telegraph stations, limits of navigation, scale of nautical miles, land aerodromes, landing fields, airship bases, airship hangars, airship mooring masts, water aerodromes, seaplane moorings or anchorages, marine lights: lighthouses or light buoys, light vessels (centre of star, air lights, radio electric stations, aeronautical radio D/F or radio beacon stations, overhead hight tension cables, landmarks, air corridors (not marked on this sheet), danger areas, explosives areas, airports (with customs facilities) land and water aerodromes with air light. aeronautical radio communication stations and D/F or radio beacon stations, landing grounds abandoned. Contours are at 200 & 500 metres & thence at 500 metre intervals. Relief shown by form lines with height in metres, tinted shading. Colour. Scale 1 : 2,000,000.
Identifier: islandora:19135

Title: Africa ... sic describente
Subject: Africa
Description: Four-sheet folio map. Atlas first issued in 1660. "The map appears upside down, as was the custom with other Italian cartographers.", Rome. Nicolosio, Joanne Baptista, 1610-1670
Identifier: islandora:25339

Title: Verkeersweё. Die verhaal van 300 jaar van vervoer in Suid-Africa tesame met 'n geїllustreerde kaart aangebied deur die administratie van die Suid-Afrikaanse spoorweё en hawens by geleentheid van die Van Riebeeck-fees
Subject: Transportation--South Africa--History--Maps, Transportation and state--South Africa--Maps,
Description: Map showing the story of 300 years of transport in South Africa with illustrated forms of transport, and description on the back. White lines indicate air routes, black lines indicate rail routes, and red lines indicate bus or road routes. Illustrated. Coloured. No scale given
Identifier: islandora:29952

Title: New map : Briton or Boer
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902--Maps, South Africa--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing territories under dispute during the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1902 and in the vicinity, including the southern part of Transvaal, the Orange Free State, Basutoland, Natal, Zululand, the Cape Colony and an eastern sliver of British Bechuanaland. The map also shows rivers, roads, hills, telegraph lines, railways and railways under construction. 3rd edition. Relief indicated by contours. Inset maps: Pretoria (scale 1 in. to 2 miles); Kimberley (scale 1 in. to 2 miles); Johannesburg (scale 1 in. to 2 miles); Ladysmith (scale 1 in. to 6 miles); Dundee (scale 1 in. to 4 miles); South Africa (scale 1 in. to 250 miles).
Identifier: islandora:30057

Title: Lake Rudolf
Subject: Rudolf, Lake (Kenya and Ethiopia), ,
Description: United States Army Air Forces aeronautical chart map showing Lake Rudolf in Kenya with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia, and state and international boundaries with Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia, with landplane facilities, seaplane facilities, lighting facilities, air defence zones or vital defence areas, air navigation hazards, flight lines, civil airways, radio range courses, radio fan markers, radio range facilities, facilities available at airfields, radio direction finder stations, radiobeacons, radio communication stations, radio broadcasting stations, rescue boats, streams and rivers, unsurveyed canals, rapids and falls, intermittent lakes, glaciers, swamps and marshes, shoals, reefs, ledges, sand bars, etc., small coral islands, charted rocks, springs, wells and water holes, mud and tidal flats, cities, towns and villages, highways and roads: road markers, hachures (elevation in feet) sand areas and sand dunes, sand ridges, lava flows, contours, approximate contours, depression contours, bluffs, cliffs and escarpments, power transmission lines, telephone and telegraph lines, dams, highest elevation on chart, spot elevations (in feet), mines and quarries, mountain passes, lookout towers, forts, pipelines, race tracks, railroads, railroad sidings, abandoned railroads, railroad overpasses, railroad underpasses, bridges, tunnels. Relief shown by hachures, contour lines with approximate height in feet, tinted shading. Colour. First edition Scale 1 : 1,000,000.
Identifier: islandora:19301

Title: Sketch map of the country between the Kowie and the Chalumna Rivers showing the Fingo and Kafir locations, general lay of the country &c, &c
Subject: Geology -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape., Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map gives cadastral details including field-cornetcy boundaries and numbers, farm boundaries, farm names and the territories of leaders including Jokweni, Matomela, Kama, Kaulela, Toise, Siwani and Jali. Map also shows towns and villages including Bathurst, Clumber, Peddie and Hamburg., Projection not given. Coordinates not given., Annotated in blue pencil: "Recd from Mr. Henkel 9/1/77 H.E. Richard Bright."
Identifier: islandora:19617

Title: Sea chart of Simon's Bay
Subject: Africa - Simon's Bay
Identifier: islandora:25253

Title: Map to accompany General Manager's report for the year 1895
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Maps,
Description: Map showing railways in the Cape Colony through to British Bechuanaland, through the Orange Free State into the South African Republic. Shows territorial boundaries and place names. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 60 miles.
Identifier: islandora:29807

Title: Impero del Monomotapa e Stati Vicini
Subject: Southeast Africa
Description: The coastline illustrates many Portuguese settlements. Silver and gold mines are shown.
Identifier: islandora:25252

Title: Map of the Eastern Frontier of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
Subject: Eastern Africa
Description: First published in 1836 by John Arrowsmith of London. "This map provides a great deal of historical and geographical information regarding the important part of the Cape Colony which was the scene of nine frontier wars between the Cape government and the Xhosa tribe." Inset shows 'Statistical notes 1833'. Dedicated to Sir Benjamin D'Urban., London. Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823
Identifier: islandora:25463

Title: Marrakech
Subject: Marrakech (Morocco)--Maps, ,
Description: Map with hypsometric tints shows the area around Marrakech, in Morocco, using the Southern Zone Layer System for altitudes, with railways, roads, place names. Relief shown by form lines, heights in metres. Colour. Scale about 1 inch to 10 miles.
Identifier: islandora:19150

Title: German East Africa. Kalula
Subject: German East Africa -- Maps.
Description: 2nd ed. (Railway rev.)., Map showing towns, villages, international boundaries, railways, roads, tracks, telegraph lines, post and telegraph offices, heights in metres above sea level, mission stations, ruins, and "Mbuga" ("Low Country, often swampy in rainy season") in the Kalula area., Relief shown by form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Map does not have additional reference grid., Index no.: D3.
Identifier: islandora:24775

Title: South Africa Compiled from the M.S. Maps in the Colonial Office
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Insets of Environs of the Cape district, District of George, Environs of Graham-Town and Cape-Town., London. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Identifier: islandora:25313

Title: Djinnak
Subject: Senegal--Maps.,
Description: Map of Senegal at the northwestern border with Gambia, showing islands, marshes, mangroves, woods, bushes, rice fields, villages, trails, tracks, and other features in the region of Djinnak., Relief not shown., Projection not given.
Identifier: islandora:19559

Title: Plan van de geproclameerde Goud Velden te Witwatersrand, Z.A.R
Subject: Africa
Description: Photocopy. "This diagram is of great historical importance, as it is believed to be the first diagram depicting the location of the village of Johannesburg on government ground, and the first diagram showing the location of Mynpachts, mining right leases on Witwatersrand gold fields ... ". Inset: Lyst van Mynpachten Toegestaan., Pretoria. Landmeter Generaal's Kantoor
Identifier: islandora:25467

Title: Transvaal and Orange Free State. Bloemhof
Subject: Bloemhof Region (North-West, South Africa) -- Maps., Free State (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating Bloemhof, Wolmaranstad, Christiana, Hoopstad and Schweizer Reneke (Mamusa), roads, mountains, rivers, drifts, pans and other watering places in the area of Bloemhof., Relief shown by form lines., Projection not given., Easternmost longitude co-ordinate estimated., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Copy 285 torn slightly.
Identifier: islandora:24886

Title: Africa, political divisions
Subject: Africa -- Boundaries -- Maps.
Description: Map of Africa showing political boundaries, treaty boundaries (with dates), undefined boundaries and telegraph cables., "Supplement to The African Review, 1st February, 1896"., African Review (London, England)
Identifier: islandora:19663

Title: Sources of mine native labour
Subject: Labour--Southern Africa--History--Maps, Contract labor--Southern Africa--Maps, Miners--Southern Africa--Recruitment, ,
Description: Map of Southern Africa showing native mine workers' recruiting stations of the Native Recruiting Corporation (N.R.C.) and the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (W.N.L.A.), international boundaries, native transport routes, names of places, and rivers. Illustrated. Scale: 1.5 in. to 100 Statute Miles.
Identifier: islandora:29948

Title: General plan of the diamond fields, to illustrate the Report of the Surveyor of Mines dated Feby. 28th 1883
Subject: Diamond mines and mining--South Africa--Northern Cape--Maps,
Description: Map showing the diamond mines around Kimberley and Beaconsfield, namely, Kimberley Mine, Old de Beer's Mine, Bultfontein Mine and Du Toit's Pan Mine, within the divisions of Alexanderfontein, Bultfontein, Vooruitzigt, Dorstfontein and Benauwheidfontein, with roads. Scale 1 inch to 20 chains.
Identifier: islandora:25122

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