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Title: Namaqualand
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Namaqualand (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Province (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., Map shows farm boundaries, farm names, farm roads, homesteads, divisional boundaries, grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, railways, telegraph lines, rivers, pans and hills in the Namaqualand, Kamaggas, Kamiesberg, Springbokfontein and Van Rhynsdorp areas. The map also indicates towns including Kamaggas (and mission house), Bowesdorp, Garies and Springbokfontein as well as the Ethel Chapel School and Leliefontein mission station., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The maps are mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24851

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