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Title: Map of the Transvaal and the surrounding territories
Subject: Transvaal (South Africa) -- Maps., Transvaal (South Africa) -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.
Description: Map of the Transvaal with portions of the Orange Free State, Cape of Good Hope, Griqualand West, Basuto Land, Natal, Portuguese territories, boundary lines, cities and towns, African clans and tribes, kraals, the approximate line of the Keate award, goldfields and places where gold could be found, mines, specific metals and minerals, missionary stations, postal routes, post offices, the projected railway line from Delagoa Bay, main roads, tsetse fly areas, forest and thorn bush and farms (with some surnames of owners). Also indicated on the map are the routes of the following travellers: St. Vincent Whitshed Erskine (1868 and 1872); Eduard Mohr and Adolf Hübner (1869-1870); Captain James Frederic Elton (1870); Carl Mauch (1869-1871); Thomas Baines (1871-1873); Henry St. G. Osborne (1872); Dr Emil Cohen (1873); Col. George Pomeroy Colley (1875); John Sanderson and others; P. Hope (1873); and Joaquim de Santa Rita Montanha (1855-1856)., Relief shown by hachures and spot heights., Five insets: Distances by trochiameter -- Table showing distances and altitudes of projected line of railway from Lourenço Marques to Drakensberg according to prely. survey taken by R.T. Hall -- Plan of Pretoria -- Continuation of Mauch's route to the ruins of Zimbabye [sic] discd. 5th Septr. 1871 -- Plan of Lourenço Marques.
Identifier: islandora:19539

Title: [Map of Pondoland]
Subject: Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Lesotho -- Maps.
Description: Map of the Eastern Cape between the Umzimkulu River and East London, showing the territories of the amaPondo [amaMpondo], Tembi [abaThembu], Fingoes [amaMfengu], Pondomise [amaMpondomise], Galekas [amaGcaleka] and Bacas [amaBhaca]. The map also shows Basutoland [now Lesotho], Natal, the Aliwal North District, Wodehouse District, King William's Town, St John's Mouth and the lands of specific traditional leaders including Stockwe [Stokwe] and Matanzima. Rivers, police camps, mission stations and routes taken by Langalibalele, James Murray Grant and Joseph Orpen in the Maluti Mountains, Lesotho., Relief shown by hachures.
Identifier: islandora:19623

Title: Map of Natal shewing land reserved for and occupied by natives
Subject: Land tenure--South Africa--Natal--Maps, Africans--South Africa--Natal--Administration--Maps, ,
Description: A choropleth map showing location, mission reserves, county, colony and native land boundaries. Also shows rivers and place names. Some colour. Scale I inch to 22.5 miles.
Identifier: islandora:25145

Title: Map of proposed Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn Rly
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Mossel Bay--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Oudtshoorn--Maps, Outeniekwaberge (South Africa)--Maps,
Description: Map showing the proposed railway line from Mossel Bay to Oudtshoorn through the Outeniqua Mountains, with rivers, place names, relief shown by hachures. Some colour. Scale 1:250 000.
Identifier: islandora:25160

Title: Map to accopmany General Manager's report for year 1901
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Maps, Railroads--Zimbabwe--Maps, Railroads--Botswana--Maps, , ,
Description: A map showing the railway lines in South Africa, Bechuanaland and Rhodesia, namely, the Western System, the Midland System, the Eastern System, the Imperial Military Railways in the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal, the Natal Railways and the Rhodesia Railways, with a few sections of foreign and other railways, as well as lines under construction. The map shows colonial boundaries, rivers and towns. Some colour. Scale 1/8 inch to 10 miles.
Identifier: islandora:25115

Title: Map of the District of Xalanga
Subject: Xalanga (South Africa)--Description and travel--Maps, Surveying--South Africa, Land use--South Africa--Xalanga (Eastern Cape),
Description: Map of the District of Xalanga showing future plans, names of settlements and places, plots, boundaries, roads, and rivers. Scale 1 English mile to 1 inch.
Identifier: islandora:30005

Title: GPS Land Use and Occupancy Survey : Karel "Vet Piet" Kleinman and Jakob Jaggers, Map item #15
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 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:27339

Title: Map of the colony of Natal. Ladysmith-Dundee
Subject: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map section, Ladysmith-Dundee, froms part of the Map of the colony of Natal., Map of the Ladysmith and Dundee area from Krantz Kop in the north to Frere in the south, showing cities and towns, roads, railways, telegraph and telephone lines, county boundaries, magisterial divisions, mission stations, trigonometrical points, magistrate's offices, reserve boundaries, farm boundaries, farm names and numbers, African "locations" with names of clan leaders, rivers and mountains., Relief shown by shading., Collective title, Map of the colony of Natal, from Durban (North Coast) and Scale sections; section title, Ladysmith-Dundee, from cover., The map folds into an outer cover.
Identifier: islandora:19532

Title: Map of Cape Town central and neighbouring suburbs
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: The map shows tramways, railways, principal buildings, bathing places and the harbour area marking Victoria Basin, Alfred Basin, Duncan Dock and Sturrock Graving Dock. The map also indicates further harbour and foreshore developments, including the new "reclaimed land", the Yacht Basin, the Royal Cape Yacht Club and the Paarden Eiland Industrial Area. The map gives topographical detail and the names of suburbs including Camp's Bay, Sea Point, Green Point, Tamboers Kloof, Gardens, Oranjezicht, Woodstock, Salt River, Observatory, Mowbray and Rondebosch. Additional information and advertisements on verso of map.
Identifier: islandora:19892

Title: Map of the colony of Natal. Pietermaritzb'g
Subject: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map section, Pietermaritzb'g, forms part of the Map of the colony of Natal., Map of the Pietermaritzburg area from Impahlazini in the north to Umbogintwani Station in the South, showing cities and towns, roads, railways, telegraph and telephone lines, county boundaries, magisterial divisions, mission stations, trigonometrical points, magistrate's offices, reserve boundaries, farm boundaries, farm names and numbers, African "locations" with names of clan leaders, rivers and mountains., Relief shown by shading., Collective title, Map of the colony of Natal, from Durban (North Coast) and Scale sections; section title, Pietermaritzb'g, from cover., The map folds into an outer cover.
Identifier: islandora:19533

Title: Map of the Division of Hope Town, compiled from general plans & diagrams filed in the Surveyor General's Office, Cape Town, 1894
Subject: Schools--South Africa--Hopetown--Maps, Schools--South Africa--Northern Cape--Maps,
Description: A map showing existing schools and proposed centres for schools, with divisional boundaries, principal roads, ordinary roads. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 5 English miles.
Identifier: islandora:25109

Title: [Map of Bredasdorp]
Subject: Bredasdorp Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Swellendam Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map of the division of Bredasdorp (with part of Swellendam division) giving cadastral details including farm boundaries, farm names and quitrent numbers. Also shown are the villages of Bredasdorp, Napier and Elim, the site of the wreck of the "Barbara Gordon", the Cape Agulhas lighthouse, rivers, pools, marshes and trigonometrical stations., Relief shown by shading., "Printed by S. Solomon & Co., Cape Town".
Identifier: islandora:19524

Title: Cape Government Railways map shewing approximately the route of a proposed light railway from Carnarvon to Prieska
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Carnarvon--Maps, Rairoads--South Africa--Prieska--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing a proposed railway line from Carnarvon to Prieska, with farms, commonage, the Karee Bergen, roads and rivers. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 1200 Cape roods. Scale 1 6/8 inch to 5 miles.
Identifier: islandora:29800

Title: Royal Automobile Club of South Africa. Key map. Supplement to the eight edition of the Club's route book, 1936
Subject: Automobiles--South Africa--Societies, etc.--Maps, Roads--South Africa--Maps, Service stations--South Africa--Maps,
Description: A map showing the Provincial and District capital towns. Routes described and numbered routes not described. Gives approximate mileages. Gives major city names. Gives place names and routes linking them. No scale given.
Identifier: islandora:19046

Title: Divisional map of Middelburg
Subject: Schools--South Africa--Middelburg (Eastern Cape)--Maps,
Description: A map of the Division of Middelburg showing existing schools in existence and possible school centres, covering the field cornetcies of Middelburg, Rhenosterburg, Naauw Poort, Zuurberg, Brak River and Willem Burgers Rivier, with rivers, roads, railways, railway stations, farms, commonages, outspans, towns and villages. Some colour. Scale 6/8 inch to 1000 Cape roods. Scale about 2/8 inch to 1 mile.
Identifier: islandora:25113

Title: District Map of Tsomo, Transkei. Sheet no. 2
Subject: Transkei (South Africa)--Description and travel--Maps, Homelands (South Africa)--Maps, ,
Description: Map of Tsomo, Transkei, showing locations of Mfula, Mbulu, Gaba, Xolobe and Lutuli, location boundaries, building lots and plans, forests, trading stations, rivers, and roads. Relief shown by mountain peaks. Scale 300 Cape Roods = 1 Eng. Inch.
Identifier: islandora:30054

Title: Jeppe's map of the Transvaal or S.A. Republic and surrounding territories
Subject: Transvaal (South Africa) -- Maps., Pretoria (South Africa) -- Maps., Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map shows towns, farm boundaries, farm names, farm registration numbers, farms under the jurisdiction of Mining Commissioners, roads, railways, postal routes, custom houses, postal and telegraph information, proclaimed gold fields, mynpachten, kraals and "locations", mountains and rivers. The map also shows portions of the Orange Free State, the Cape Colony, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal], Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], Zululand, Tongaland, the British Protectorate [Botswana] and Portuguese territory [Mozambique]., Relief shown by shading., "The compilers are greatly indebted to Johann Rissik Esq. Surveyor General of the S.A.R. for much valuable information and advice.", "The Freestate portion of the map is reduced from Herfst's map of the O.Freestate. Swaziland is compiled from actual surveys and Miller's map.", Photographic reproduction of the map published: London : Edward Stanford Ltd., 1899., Bar scale of main map in English statute miles., Inset maps include: 'Plan of Johannesburg and surrounding suburbs and townships reduced from "Pritchard's commercial map of J'hburg"' and 'Plan of Pretoria suburbs and surrounding grounds, reduced from original plan compiled in the Surveyor General's Office, Pretoria, S.A.R.' Scale [ca. 1:9 446]. Bar scales in Cape feet., To be used in conjunction with Jeppe's map: Hugh F. Marriot's Alphabetical index to the farms of the Transvaal.
Identifier: islandora:19799

Title: The Castle Line map of South Africa--[cartographic material]
Subject: Africa, Southern--Maps, Castle Line (Firm)--Maps., Shipping--South Africa--Maps.
Description: Map of southern Africa showing British, German, French and Portuguese territories, Orange Free State, Congo State, Swaziland, goldfields, minerals, industries, railways (already constructed, in course of construction, authorised or projected), coach routes, direct sea routes of the "Castle" steamers and table of distances., Inset maps: Central Africa, by T. Ruddiman Johnston; Track chart of the Royal Mail steamships of the Castle Mail Packets Co. Ltd. Photograph of the Royal Mail steamship "Dunottar Castle" outside Cape Town harbour with Table Mountain in the background., The map is varnished. It is damaged and cracking as a result of the varnishing.
Identifier: islandora:19776

Title: Cape Government Railways map
Subject: Africa, Southern -- Maps., Railroads -- South Africa -- Maps.
Description: The map shows the railway routes in the Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Natal, Zululand, Griqualand East and Pondoland in present-day South Africa as well as in Rhodesia. The map also indicates the neighbouring British Bechaunaland Protectorate, German South West Africa, Basuto Land, and Portuguese Territory but no railway routes are shown in these territories. Also indicated are rivers, lakes, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Indian Ocean to the east. The reference key points to the "Cape Government Railways & Lines administered by the Cape Government", "Other Railways", and [railways] "under construction authorised or proposed"., An inset map in the bottom right corner shows Cape Town and surroundings as well as detailed railway routes as far as Kalabas Kraal, Malan, French Hoek [Franschhoek] and Caledon., A small section of the top left side of the map has been torn off but no image or text is affected. The map is torn along the left hand folds., Townshend, Taylor and Snashall (Firm)
Identifier: islandora:19583

Title: Map of the colony of Natal and Zululand
Subject: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map of Natal and Zululand showing Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Hardin, Richmond, Howick, Kokstad, Verulam and other towns, African "location[s]", railways and projected railways, roads, telegraph lines, mission stations, battlefields, mountains, rivers and drifts., Relief shown by hachures and pictorially.
Identifier: islandora:19791

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