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- Title
- City of Cape Town and environs
- Subject
- Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town Metropolitan Area (South Africa) -- Maps.
- Description
- Text in English and Afrikaans., This coloured version of the 1937 map shows the central business district and the peri-urban and suburban areas of Cape Town including Gardens, Oranjezicht, Vredehoek, Tamboers Kloof, Woodstock, Salt River, Brooklyn, Good Hope model village, Milnerton, Paarden Eiland, Maitland, certificate of registered title for Montagu Gardens, Sanddrift, Tiger Oats Township, Kensington, Windermere, Factreton, Epping plantation, Uitvlugt, Gatesville, Belgravia, Sanatorium Township, Pinelands and the Garden Cities site, Ndabeni, Hazendal, the proposed Bokmakirie Township, Goodwood, Langa, Welcome, Observatory, Mowbray, Rosebank, Rondebosch, Groote Schuur Estate, Kirstenbosch, Newlands, Claremont, Kenilworth, Constantia, Wynberg, Plumstead, Diep River, Heathfield, Retreat, Lotus River, Schaap Kraal, Tokai, Silvermine, Ronde Vlei, Zeekoe Vlei, Grassy Park, Strandfontein Coast Forest Reserve, Montagu's Gift, Ilfracombe Estate, Dreyersdal, Lakeside, Muizenberg, St James, Kalk Bay, Clovelly, Fish Hoek, Glencairn, Red Hill, Simonstown, Simon's Bay, Kommetjie, Sweet Water, Witsands, Noordhoek, Scarborough, Hout Bay, Chapman's Peak, Kronendal, Oude Kraal, Bakoven, Camps Bay, Clifton, Sea Point, Fresnaye, Green Point, Mouille Point and Table Bay harbour., The map also shows municipalities, streets, buildings, erven with property numbers, "native locations", Table Mountain, the Twelve Apostles and other mountains, rivers and dams, salt pans, forested areas, sports and recreation grounds, Kenilworth Race Course, golf courses, aerodromes (including the air mail aerodrome site), hospitals and sanatoria including Groote Schuur, Valkenberg, Rentzkie's Farm Isolation hospital, Oude Molen Mental Hospital, the Alexandra Institution and the Chronic Sick home, churches, railway lines, railway stations, power stations, the zoo, the University of Cape Town, lighthouses, cemeteries and burial grounds., Relief shown pictorially., Dimensions of the printed sheets: 89 x 113 cm. or smaller., The library does not hold a full printed set of the 1937 edition of this map and this coloured digital set is incomplete. These digital copies of sheets 2, 3 and 4 of the series have been made available through the generosity of the Environmental Resource Management Department of the Cape Town City Council.
- Identifier
- islandora:19889
- Title
- Route of the South African Gold Fields Exploration Company's expedition 1869 to 1872 (and previous tracks)
- Subject
- South Africa -- Maps., Africa, Southern -- Maps.
- Description
- The map, which shows the route and previous tracks in red, covers the Eastern Cape, Orange Free State, Natal, Transvaal, Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia. Features and relief such as rivers, valleys and mountains as well as towns are indicated. The map includes detailed annotations regarding the people en route as well as notes on topographical conditions and on earlier expeditions., Map is printed in 3 pieces.
- Identifier
- islandora:19774
- Title
- Plan en Caart van 't Vlek aan Caap de Goede Hoop
- Subject
- Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
- Description
- Photocopy., Text in Dutch., Original statement of scale: "Schaale van 100 Rhijnlandsche Roeden"., Plan of Cape Town in 1755 showing streets and erven. Features such as the Company's garden, Company's hospital, Groote Kerk and Slave Lodge are marked., Copy in H. W. J. Picard, Gentleman's Walk (Cape Town: Struik, 1968): facing page 38. A description of the plan is given on pages 37-38 and a partial key is printed opposite p. 38., See BA 968.21 PICA.
- Identifier
- islandora:19927
- Title
- Compilation of diagrams of the lands at Fort Hare proposed to be granted to the Lovedale Seminary and to be reserved for the Fort Hare erf holders
- Subject
- Fort Hare Military Reserve (South Africa)--Maps,
- Description
- Map of the Fort Hare Military Reserve. Relief shown by form lines. Colour. Scale 1 inch to 20 English chains.
- Identifier
- islandora:29802
- Title
- Graham's Town and the outposts with their bearings and distances
- Subject
- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps., Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
- Description
- South Eastern Cape districts showing Somerset [East], Uitenhage, Albany (Grahamstown, Salem, Bathurst, Post Retief), Victoria (Fort Beaufort, Fort Peddie), King William's Town, and the Great Fish River. Wyld's map features towns, forts and posts with distances between them as well as rivers and mountains.
- Identifier
- islandora:19526
- Title
- GPS Land Use and Occupancy Survey : Karel "Vet Piet" Kleinman and Jakob Malgas, Map item #16
- Subject
- Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--South Africa, Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--South Africa, San (African people)--Kalahari Desert, Africa, Southern--Maps, ,
- Description
- A map of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park showing various numbered points of interest within and around the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. There is no legend but these numbers are believed to correspond with GPS co-ordinates taken at sites of cultural significance gleaned from interviews with members of the San community.
- Identifier
- islandora:27340
- Title
- Map of Table Mountain
- Subject
- Cape Peninsula (South Africa) -- Maps., Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa) -- Maps.
- Description
- The Mountain Club of South Africa is responsible for the preparation of the map. Lithographed by Van der Sandt de Villiers Printing Company, Ltd., Topographical map of the Table Mountain area including the coastline from Sea Point to Kommetje's Bay [Kommetjie]. The map shows detailed features of Table Mountain including the Central Table, Back Table, Orange Kloof, Victorskloof or Kronen Dal and Modder Gat. It also indicates the location of the major water sources on the mountain including the Woodhead Reservoir, the Hely Hutchinson Reservoir and the Wynberg Reservoirs, as well as the Molteno Dam and the Newlands Reservoir at the foot of the mountain on its north and east flanks. It also shows the Wynberg Disa Stream, the Palmiet River, Camp's Bay Tram station and the route of the Camp's Bay tramline. Other peaks and ridges depicted are the Twelve Apostles, Little Lion's Head, Klaasen Kop and Constantia Nek. The key indicates (a) the Catchment area, Cape Town Waterworks, (b) the Catchment area, Wynberg Waterworks and (c) the Reserve (fenced). Also shown are heights of peaks in English feet., This sheet map was originally issued as a folded map glued into a cover. Both front and back covers of copy 717 are intact but only the back cover of copy 17 is still appended.
- Identifier
- islandora:19593
- Title
- Umtamvuna River to Tugela River
- Subject
- KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Maps., Nautical charts -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal., Coasts -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal -- Maps.
- Description
- Africa. South East Coast ; Sheet 7, Natal, Nautical chart of the Colony of Natal coast from the Tugela River to the Umzamba River, south of the Umtamvuna River, showing soundings in fathoms, the location of navigation lights and beacons, and the presence of a range of mineral and other features such as pebbles, coral, gravel, rocks and sand. Figures on the land show the heights in feet above the sea's high water mark., First published at the Admiralty, 1 July 1873, under the superintendence of Rear Admiral G.H. Richards, with large corrections March 1885 and smaller corrections up to July 1895., Inset: Aliwal Shoal / by Captain P. Aldrich and the Officers of H.M.S. Sylvia, 1884., Includes illustration of "Appearance of the land at half a mile to the west of Aliwal Shoal" between the mouths of the Umpambinyoni River [Blood River] and the Umkomass [Umkomaas] River.
- Identifier
- islandora:19792
- Title
- South Africa : rainfall in December from the averages of observations
- Subject
- Rain and rainfall--South Africa--Maps, Rain and rainfall--South Africa--Measurement--Maps,
- Description
- Map of South Africa showing the mean annual rainfall for the month of December, rainfall stations, railways, roads, rivers, and plateaus. Relief shown by hachures. Some colour. Scale: 1 in. to 100 English miles. Projection not given.
- Identifier
- islandora:30051
- Title
- Vrede
- Subject
- Vrede Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Free State (South Africa) -- Maps.
- Description
- Topographical map indicating towns, farms, railways, mountains, rivers, drifts, pans, vleis and other watering places in the area of Vrede., Relief shown by contours., Projection not given., A map in the Orange River Colony degree sheet series, Includes index to adjoining sheets.
- Identifier
- islandora:24884
- Title
- Plan du fort et de la ville du Cap de Bonne Esperance :
- Subject
- Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
- Description
- Statement of scale: Echelle de trois cent toises; Schaal van 300 halve-roeden., Text in French and Dutch., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards., See also BMSC 6821.g.1 (573) for German version and BMSC 6821.g.1 (423) for French version., Indexed for points of interest including the Grand Parade, Church Square, Slave Lodge, Groote Kerk, VOC Hospital and other buildings, Fiscal’s house and Company Gardens.
- Identifier
- islandora:19928
- Title
- Übersicht der Trigonometrischen & Nautischen aufnehmen in Kaplande bis 1867--[cartographic material]
- Subject
- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Maps., Nautical charts--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope.
- Description
- Trigonometrical and navigational map of the southern portion of the Cape of Good Hope showing the southern African coast from St Helena Bay, Saldanha Bay and False Bay in the south and west to Cape Morgan in the east and the Compassberg in the north., Relief shown by spot heights. Depths shown by contours and soundings., Projection not given. Bar scale in German miles., Inset: Südliches Ende der Agulhas Bank [the southern end of the Agulhas Bank]., Appears in Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer Anstalt über wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem Gesammtgebiete der Geographie / von A. Petermann. Gotha : Justus Perthes, 1868.
- Identifier
- islandora:19590
- Title
- Miller's new map of British South Africa
- Subject
- Africa, Southern -- Maps., South Africa -- Maps.
- Description
- Topographical map of South and Southern Africa showing British Bechuanaland, Basutoland, Swaziland, the southern portion of Southern Rhodesia, and a section of Portuguese East Africa. The map includes a key indicating British South Africa, Portuguese Territory, German Territory, railways and telegraph lines, railways under construction, roads, principal steamship routes (distances in nautical miles), heights in feet, mission stations, passes and proclaimed goldfields. It also gives tables of steamship and railway distances., The map folds into an outer cover (21 x 12 cm.)., Inset maps: Rhodesia and British Central Africa (Scale 1:5 000 000); Witwatersrand - cadastral plan of the Witwatersrand area showing farm names and boundaries, buildings, railways reefs and names of mines (Scale [ca. 1:178 816]); Plan of Pretoria showing streets of the central city area (Scale [ca. 1:63 660]); Cape Town showing streets, principal buildings and other landmarks from Fort Knokke to the Green Point Common (Scale [ca. 1:26 822]); Pietermaritzburg - main streets and buildings (Scale [ca. 1:30 480]); Durban - main streets and buildings (Scale [ca. 1:30 480]); Kimberley - plan of Kimberley area showing mines, Beaconsfield and Du Point's Pan (Scale [ca. 1:63 660]); Port Elizabeth (Scale [ca. 1:26 822]); The Cape Peninsula from Robben Island to Cape Maclear and Anvil Rock showing railways, roads and lighthouses (Scale [ca. 1:459 813]); South eastern England on the scale of the general map; and a Track chart showing the routes to South Africa.
- Identifier
- islandora:19767
- Title
- Bloemfontein
- Subject
- South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Bloemfontein Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
- Description
- Map showing farm boundaries and fences, farm names, divisional boundaries, roads, rivers, telegraph lines and railways in the Bloemfontein area. Map also indicates hills, pans (often dry), homesteads, cultivated land and trees., Relief shown by hachures., "G.F.N. Henderson [,] Colonel. Director of Military Intelligence"., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen. Advertisements have been pasted onto the map obscuring the key and other information.
- Identifier
- islandora:24817
- Title
- Ladybrand
- Subject
- South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Ladybrand Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
- Description
- 1st ed., Map showing farm boundaries and fences, farm names, divisional boundaries, roads, rivers, telegraph lines and railways in the Ladybrand area. The map also indicates hills, pans (often dry), homesteads, cultivated land and trees., Relief shown by hachures., Most of compiler's name cut off at the bottom of the map., "G.F.N. Henderson [,] Colonel. Director of Military Intelligence"., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate.", Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
- Identifier
- islandora:24842
- Title
- Cape Colony, 1896 : map showing lepers per 10,000 of population for last 10 years so far as can be ascertained, 8th February, 1896
- Subject
- Lepers--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--Maps, Cape of Good Hope (Colony)--Administrative and political divisions--Maps, , ,
- Description
- Administrative map showing lepers per 10,000 of the population, with district and division boundaries, seats of magistracy and railway lines. Chiefly colour. Scale 7/8 inch to 50 miles.
- Identifier
- islandora:29814
- Title
- Map of the Union of South Africa
- Subject
- South Africa--Description and travel--Maps, ,
- Description
- Map of the Union of South Africa showing territories, provinces, international and provincial boundaries, towns and places, railways, roads, rivers, pans, and mountains. No scale or projection given.
- Identifier
- islandora:29923
- Title
- Map shewing distribution of houses affected by typhoid fever at Port Elizabeth and line of sewers : annexure to report on prevalence
- Subject
- Typhoid fever--South Africa--Port Elizabeth--Maps, Port Elizabeth (South Africa)--Maps, Sewerage--South Africa--Port Elizabeth--Maps,
- Description
- A street map of Port Elizabeth showing typhoid fever cases and the sewers, with street names, rivers, cemeteries, locations, gardens, churches and the synagogue, ponds, dams, parks, the native and pauper burial grounds, jetties, the beach, the railway station and line, the prison, schools and stables. Scale 2 inches to 1000 feet and about 1/2 inch to 100 yards.
- Identifier
- islandora:25088
- Title
- C.G.R. proposed Bontebok Flats rly plan to accompany report by C. Bodtker dated 15th Octr. 1901
- Subject
- Railroads--South Africa--Eastern Cape--Maps,
- Description
- A map showing the proposed Bontebok Flats railway in the Eastern Cape, joining the main line to East London close to Cathcart, showing existing railway line, rivers, roads, sidings, commonage, outspans, farms and the towns and villages of Cathcart, Seymour, and Tylden. Some colour. Scale 1/2 inch to 1 mile.
- Identifier
- islandora:25114
- Title
- The Keate Award Territory
- Subject
- Transvaal (South Africa)--Discovery and travel--Maps, Transvaal (South Africa)--History--Maps,
- Description
- Map showing the Keate Award Territory, with red and yellow lines as markers, Transvaal farms, native kraals and posts, routes, rivers, and names of places. Marked with colours. Scale 10 English Miles to 1.8 Inches
- Identifier
- islandora:29976
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