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Title: Mossel Bay & Oudtshoorn rly. survey : general plan of proposed line
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Western Cape--Maps,
Description: A map with the coastline, rivers, place names, relief represented by hachures, showing the proposed railway line. Some colour. No scale given.
Identifier: islandora:25161

Title: Abidjan
Subject: Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Abidjan region in Ivory Coast, including Agboville, Lakota and Aboisso and the Atlantic coast, and state boundaries, colonial territories, provincial, district and subdivision boundaries, with railway, roads, tracks, paths, streets with telegraph lines and telegraph lines, colonial capitals, important cities and main towns, chief towns of districts, bridges, ferries, ford crossings, perennial and intermittent water flows, swamps, springs, salt or sweetwater marshes, airports, landing strips and water airports, post and telegraph offices,roadhouses, radio stations, customs offices, military bases, stage and storage camps, Christian missions, Mosques, minarets, sacred places, trigometric or astronomic points, coastal harbours, forest (high and jungle). Altitude in metres. Relief is shown in form lines. Colour. Special edition. Scale 1 : 500 000.
Identifier: islandora:19272

Title: Cape of Good Hope, St. John's River (Umzimvubu)
Subject: Mzimvubu River (South Africa)--Maps, Port Saint Johns (South Africa)--Maps, Pondoland (South Africa)--Maps,
Description: A map of St. John's River with hydrographic information on river soundings and sea miles. "Soundings in feet reduced to low-water ordinary springs." The land along the river has relief shown by contours, shading and pictorially. Place names are Cape Hermes and Fort Harrison. There is a rectilineal figure lettered a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, x, m and n, plus points j, k and l. "The stations a ti I, x, m, are laid down from co-ordinates furnished by Mr. F. S. Watermeyer, Govt. Surveyor, and the stations j, k, l are scaled from his lithographed map and were fixed by compass bearings only by Lt. Cameron RE." The boundary from station m encloses with the river the area purchased from Umquilso by the Cape Government. Scale 1 inch to 1200 feet.
Identifier: islandora:25068

Title: City of Cape Town and environs
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town Metropolitan Area (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This street plan of Cape Town shows the central business district and the peri-urban and suburban areas of the city including the City Bowl area, the Atlantic Seaboard, the Southern Suburbs, the Northern Suburbs, the Cape Flats and the False Bay area. Included are Woodstock, Good Hope model village, 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, Groote Schuur Estate, Kirstenbosch, Lotus River, Ronde Vlei, Zeekoe Vlei, Grassy Park, Strandfontein Coast Forest Reserve and Table Bay harbour., The map also shows municipalities, streets, buildings, erven with property numbers, "native locations", mountains, rivers and dams, salt pans, forested areas, sports and recreation grounds, Kenilworth Race Course, golf courses, aerodromes (including the air mail aerodrome site), schools, hospitals and sanatoria, churches, railway lines, railway stations, power stations, the zoo, lighthouses, cemeteries and burial grounds., Relief shown pictorially., Text in English and Afrikaans., Dimensions of the printed sheets: 97 x 67 cm., Includes an index sheet., The library does not hold a full printed set of the 1930 edition of this map. These digital copies have been made available through the generosity of the Environmental Resource Management Department of the Cape Town City Council.
Identifier: islandora:19846

Title: Mount Huxely
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Mount Huxley Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Mount Huxley area., 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.", Projection not given., Printed in black and red., This map contains fewer details than the Mount Huxley maps, "Copyright, F.I.D. Cape Town, Sept. 1901.", Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24840

Title: Little Namaqualand
Subject: Namaqualand (South Africa) -- Maps., Namaqualand (South Africa) -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.
Description: Manuscript map of Little Namaqualand, from the mouth of the Orange River in the north to Piquetberg in the south, indicating early expeditions including those of Jan Danckert (1660), Olof Berg (1683) and Simon van der Stel (1685). The map also indicates the border of the Colony up to 1840, Great Namaqualand (as far as Nisbet Warmbad and Oubees or Africaners Kraal), the Great Aughrabies Falls, Port Nolloth (Robbe Bay), Springbok, Bushmanland, Bowesdorp, Hondeklip Bay, Van Rhyns Dorp, the Olifant's River and Clanwilliam., Map encapsulated in mylar.
Identifier: islandora:19686

Title: Laingsburg
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Laingsburg Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Laingsburg area., 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.", Projection not given., Co-ordinates not given., Printed in black only., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24832

Title: Divisional map of Pearston
Subject: Pearston Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map of the division of Pearston giving cadastral details including farm boundaries, farm names and quitrent numbers. Also shown are divisional and field cornetcy boundaries, the village of Pearston, main and ordinary roads and rivers.
Identifier: islandora:24879

Title: [Insurance plan of Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa]
Subject: Insurance -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Fire risk assessment -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Maps.
Description: This plan is numbered Sheet 13. The sheet shows details of the construction and use of buildings within the area bounded by Queen Victoria, Bloem, Bree and Wale Streets. The sheet records street names, widths and numbers; fire-protection facilities (including the location of salt and fresh water hydrants); materials, shape, height, placement and use of buildings; the location of openings, types of stored materials and areas of high-risk activites on industrial sites., "Copyright 1949". Handwritten: "Rev'd to Sept 1956"., The original sheet has been updated by the pasting of new sections over the original plan.
Identifier: islandora:19896

Title: [Map of Swaziland]. Swaziland south
Subject: Swaziland--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing the territorial and district boundaries, native areas, rights of way, main roads and paths, footpaths, police posts, post offices, post and telegraph offices, telegraph lines, mission stations, stores, homesteads and mines, "kaffer kraals," railway stations. Relief shown by hill shading. Colour. Scale 1 inch to 1000 Cape roods. Scale 1 inch to 2.347 English miles. [Coordinates estimated]
Identifier: islandora:19319

Title: Cape of Good Hope. Mount Fletcher
Subject: Mount Fletcher Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Lesotho -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating Mount Fletcher and other towns and villages, roads, railways, rivers, mountains and other features in the area surrounding Mount Fletcher., Relief shown by contours, form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Includes table listing halting places., Includes a general note commenting on: nature of country, roads, drifts, transport, water, fuel, grazing, suplies, towns and horse sickness., Includes four ancillary maps (scale 1 in. to 0.5 miles): Stanford's Drift, Keneka Drift, Tina River Drift, Tsitsa River Drift. Includes three ancillary maps (scale 1 in. to 1 mile): Mount Fletcher, Matatiele, Keneka Drift., Sheet South-H-35/Q., Mounted on cloth.
Identifier: islandora:24939

Title: Africa : political
Subject: Africa-- Administrative and political divisions--Maps, Africa--Maps,
Description: Map of Africa showing political boundaries and European colonial possessions including territories belonging to Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
Identifier: islandora:30105

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:25153

Title: Plan of a portion of the Breede River Basin
Subject: Irrigation--South Africa--Breede River Valley--Maps,
Description: Map of the Breede River Basin showing irrigation schemes along the Breede River and between the Hex River and Cogman's Kloof, with key place names, other rivers and railway lines. Extensive relief is shown by form lines. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to about 4 miles.
Identifier: islandora:25164

Title: Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika
Subject: Namibia -- Maps., Namibia -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.
Description: Map of German South West Africa [Namibia] showing German, British and Portuguese interests, the boundaries of the major local and tribal chiefs in the German protected areas, military posts, Protestant and Roman Catholic mission stations, bodies of water and routes of travellers (James Alexander, Charles John Andersson, J. Böhm and F. Bernsmann, Hermenegildo de Brito Capello and Roberto Ivens, James Chapman, Charles Duparquet, Edward Fleck, Curt Karl Bruno von François, Georg Gürich, Carl Hugo Hahn and Johannes Rath, Jan Christiaan Smuts, and Francis Christian Ludwig von Steinäcker)., Relief shown by hachures, shading and spot heights., Top left: "Richard Kiepert, Deutscher Kolonial-Atlas"; top right: "No. 3"; lower left: "Abgeschlossen 15. October 1892"; lower right: "Lith. Anst. v. Leop. Krantz, Berlin"., Appears in Richard Kiepert and Joseph Partsch's Deutscher Kolonial-Atlas für den amtlichen Gebrauch in den Schutzgebieten. Berlin : Reimer, 1893., Inset lower left: [Eastern continuation of upper portion of map]. Note on map at point of continuation: "Östliche fortsetzung sin der ecke unten links."
Identifier: islandora:19633

Title: Le Kef
Subject: El Kef (Tunisia)--Maps,
Description: Map of the region surrounding Le Kef in El Kef Governorate, northwestern Tunisia near the border of Algeria, showing state, administrative, district and communal boundaries, with magnetic declination, long distance roads, communication routes, local highways, irregularly maintained dirt roads, logging roads and mule tracks, remains of Roman roads, stone bridges, suspended bridges with supports, footbridges, ferries, fords navigable by vehicle or foot, rivers, forests, marshes, dunes, vines, water sources dry in summer, churches, chapels or holy places, houses, wells and fountains, water and wind mills, fixed and rotating lighthouses, port lights, cannons, cemetries, irrigation canals, trigonometric points, telegraphs, posts. Colour. relief shown by form lines, contours and shading. Scale 1 : 50.000.
Identifier: islandora:19075

Title: Landscape : draft, Map item #2
Subject: Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), Africa, Southern--Maps, ,
Description: A draft thematic map showing different types of terrain in the Southern region of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. It identifies terrains include open plains, savanna, and different types of dunes. [Scale included]
Identifier: islandora:27323

Title: Map shewing routes followed in the expeditions up the Mamalaghi Small Boom, Boom Kittam, Boom & Kittam Rivers
Subject: Sierra Leone--Discovery and exploration--Maps, Sierra Leone--Description and travel--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing routes of expeditions marked in red, with dates and crossed swords indicating places where the expeditions were fixed upon, towns and names of places, war fences, rivers. Some colours. Scale 4 Nautical Miles to 1 Inch.
Identifier: islandora:29972

Title: Map of the Cape Government Railways, the Royal Mail route to the Orange River Colony, Transvaal and Rhodesia
Subject: Railroads -- South Africa -- Maps., Railroads -- Africa, southern -- Maps., Shipping -- South Africa -- Maps., South Africa -- Maps., Africa, Southern -- Maps.
Description: Map of southern Africa, including the Cape Colony, the Orange River Colony, the Transvaal, Natal, Bechuanaland, and Rhodesia, showing the routes of the Cape Government Railways and other existing railways (those already in use and those still under construction) as well as lines that had been proposed or authorised. The map also indicates cities, towns (with an alphabetical index to places on the map), rivers and shipping routes from London to Cape Town and along the South African coast., Townshend, Taylor and Snashall (Firm)
Identifier: islandora:19581

Title: Plan of proposed scheme for sewerage and sewage disposal for the Municipality of Green Point with Sea Point, South Africa
Subject: Sewerage--South Africa--Green Point--Maps, Sewerage--South Africa--Sea Point--Maps, Sea Point (South Africa)--Maps, Green Point (South Africa)--Maps,
Description: Map of proposed sewer scheme, showing muncipal boundaries, part of Cape Town Municipality including the Docks, convict station, hospital, magazine, and race course, the coastline including Mouille Point lighthouse, Green Point lighthouse, Granger Bay, Three Anchor Bay and Botany Bay , streets and buildings, railway lines and relief for the mountains. Some colour. Scale 1 6/8th inch to 1000 feet.
Identifier: islandora:25117

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