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Title: Le Cape de Bonne Esperance comme il a ete ci-devant
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: Similar to Valentijn' s map (see NOR 0215). The mountains are numbered and named in the border. 1. Le chateau. 2. Le Petit-Fort. 3. Montagne du lion. 4. Montagne de la Table. 5. Montagne du Vent. 6. Endroit ou tous les Bataeux Viennent., Leiden. Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Identifier: islandora:25282

Title: Sketch of road from Ceres Road Sta. to Touws R. via Ceres Village
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: The map, which traces the road from Ceres Road Station to Touws River via Ceres village, gives details of mountains and mountain ranges, bridges, tolls, mills and vleis. The map also shows sections of the railway line from Cape Town to Touws River Station and indicates the onward line to Beaufort West., Relief shown by hachures., Bar scale in miles.
Identifier: islandora:19594

Title: Engraving of Cape
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Identifier: islandora:25218

Title: Man walks past a "troops out!" sign spray-painted onto the Castle, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Vandalism, Armed forces
Description: A pedestrian walks past the Castle, seemingly oblivious of the controversial slogan painted on its wall facing Strand Street during the night.
Identifier: islandora:16225

Title: Map to accompany report on authorized extension of railway system
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--Maps, ,
Description: A map of northern and eastern parts of the Cape Colony showing an authorised and alternative railway extension from Cradock to Colesberg, joining the authorised and alternative extension from Beaufort West to Hope Town, with towns and other place names, district boundaries, mountains and rivers. Relief shown by hachures. Some colour. No scale given.
Identifier: islandora:25116

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: Geological map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, sheet I
Subject: Geology--South Africa--Maps, Geology, Stratigraphic--Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Maps, Basins (Geology)--South Africa--Maps,
Description: Geological map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope with notes and lines marked A to F, showing superficial deposits, Ecca and Dwyka Series of the Karoo System, Wittenberg, Bokkeveld and Table Mountain Series of the Cape System, French Hoek beds, Malmesbury Series, dolerite and diabase, and qartz-porphyry granite, railways, roads, rivers, mountains, and pans. Coloured. Scale: 1 in. to 5 English miles. Projection not given.
Identifier: islandora:29939

Title: Cape of Good Hope. Williston
Subject: Williston Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating Williston and other towns and villages, roads, rivers, mountains, dunes and other features in the area surrounding Williston., Relief shown by contours, form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Includes a table listing halting places., Includes a general note commenting on: nature of country, roads, drifts, transport, water, supplies and towns., Sheet South H-34/U., Mounted on cloth.
Identifier: islandora:24920

Title: Carte de l'Afrique méridionale au pays entre la ligne Cap de Bonne Espérance et l'Isle de Madagascar
Subject: Slaves -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Farm ownership -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa, Southern -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The details regarding Elizabeth, Nicolas Visscher's widow, are drawn from Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale de France: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7759505j.notice. See also: Atlas nouveau … by Guillaume de L'Isle (Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, 1730); R.V. Tooley, Collectors’ guide to maps of the African continent and Southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969), p. 120; Norwich's maps of Africa : an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography (Norwich, Vt. : Terra Nova Press, 1997), map 180 (note)., The inset of the Cape of Good Hope is of particular importance. It indicates the presence of slaves on Robben Island ("daar de Slaven in de Ketting loopen"). It also gives "extensive detailed and fairly accurate topographical information ... together with the names of owners of farms and plots of that period. Amongst these are de Beer, Swart Pieter, Martin de Smit, Roelof Pasman, Gerrit Kloeton, and the French Huguenot settlement. These place names add considerably to the knowledge of the history of the ... Cape of Good Hope"--Norwich's Maps of Africa, p. 203., Three insets: "Élévation du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (5 x 11 cm); "Plan du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (10 x 11 cm); "[Cabo de Bona Esperanca]" (13 x 23 cm)., Text primarily in French. The inset of the Cape is also in Dutch with some Portuguese notations., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19819

Title: Cape of Good Hope. Upington
Subject: Upington Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating Upington and other towns and villages, roads, railways, rivers, mountains, dunes and other features in the area surrounding Upington., Relief shown by contours, shading, form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Includes a table listing halting places., Includes a general note commenting on: nature of country, roads, drifts, transport, water, fuel, grazing, supplies and town of Upington., Includes five ancillary maps (scale 1 in. to 0.5 miles): Upington, Wilgenhouts Drift, Achterkop Drift, Ariegap Drift, Rooilyf Drift., Sheet South-H-34/D., Printed on cloth.
Identifier: islandora:24919

Title: Apartheid beach signage, Cape Town
Subject: Simon's Town (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: Simonstown beach reserved for whites only in the apartheid era
Identifier: islandora:16654

Title: Union of South Africa, south western sheet
Subject: South Africa--Description and travel--Maps, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Description and travel--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing the south western part of South Africa, with Cape of Good Hope, districts, towns and villages, names of places, provincial boundaries, railways, roads, and rivers. Scale: 15.77 miles = 1 inch. No projection given.
Identifier: islandora:29930

Title: Geological map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, sheet XLV.
Subject: Geology--South Africa--Maps, Geology--Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Maps, Geological survey--Cape Colony (South Africa)--Maps, ,
Description: Map shows Sheet 45 of the geological map of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, with rock layers including superficial deposits, Dwyka, Matsap, Griqua-Town, and Campbell Rand Series, and intrusive rocks, divisions of land with numbers, names of places and mountains, and reserves. Coloured. Scale 1600 Cape Roods to 1 Inch.
Identifier: islandora:29971

Title: Cape Times Big Walk, Cape Town
Subject: Simon's Town (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Sports, Charity, Newspapers
Description: Start of the Cape Times Big Walk in Simonstown, 1980s
Identifier: islandora:16977

Title: Cape Colony reconnaissance series. Orange River mouth
Subject: Orange River Estuary Region (Namibia and South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating villages, roads, railways, rivers, mountains, dunes and other features in the area of the Orange River mouth., Relief shown by contours and spot heights., "Geographical Section. General Staff."--Cover., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Includes a table listing halting places., Includes two inset sketches: Orange River at Sendling's Drift and Arris Drift., Sheet 127-E., Mounted on cloth.
Identifier: islandora:24940

Title: Cape Colony reconnaissance series. Little Bushmanland
Subject: Boesmanland (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map of Little Bushmanland showing towns and villages, roads, rivers, mountains and other features in the area., Relief shown by contours and hachures., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Includes a table listing halting places., Includes: Notes on the intervisibility of signalling stations., Sheet 128-G., Printed on cloth.
Identifier: islandora:24927

Title: Cape of Good Hope. Kamies Berg
Subject: Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating the Kamies Berg mountain range and towns and villages, roads, railways, rivers, mountains and other features in the Kamies Berg area., Relief shown by contours, form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Includes a table listing halting places., Includes a general note commenting on: nature of country, roads, rivers, transport, water, supplies and telegraph., Sheet south H-34/M., Maps mounted on cloth and torn slightly along folds.
Identifier: islandora:24918

Title: Wreck of Windsor Castle
Subject: Shipwrecks -- South Africa -- Cape Town., Nautical charts -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Marine chart showing where the Windsor Castle, a 2,672 ton steamer, was wrecked off Dassen Island on 19 October 1876. This chart was specially prepared for the Standard and Mail newspaper. In addition to the site of the wreck, the map shows Camps Bay, Green Point, Mouille Point, the Cape Town docks, Observatory, the Salt River and Riet Vlei, Whale Rock, Robben Island, Blaauwberg and Blaauwberg River, Melkbosch Point, Seal Cove, Matroos Bay and Point, Buffels River, Bok River, Bok Point, Jacob's Cove, Gans Kraal Farm, Black Rock, Moeder River, Darling, Rondeberg, Ijzer Fontein Point, Rondeberg Breaker, and Dassen Island with Roaring Sister, South Rock, South West Breakers, West Ledge, The Triangles, Boom Point and Waterloo Bay., Depths shown by soundings., Projection not given. Map shows a variation of 29°50' between magnetic north and true north., Saul Solomon & Co.
Identifier: islandora:19685

Title: Braunsia apiculata (Kensit) L.Bolus
Subject: South Africa--Cape of Good Hope, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Braunsia apiculata. Dissected drawing of flower included plus dissected flower in attached capsule. Drawn from a collection made by Frith (sub-National Botanical Garden 1378/19), Cape Province.
Identifier: islandora:22916

Title: Cape of Good Hope--[cartographic material]
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Maps., Africa, Southern--Maps.
Description: This map shows the administrative districts of the Cape including: Stellenbosch, Zwellendam (Swellendam), Clanwilliam, Tulbagh, Worcester, George, Beaufort, Somerset, Uitenhage, Albany and Graaff Reynet (Reinet) as well as the area called on the map "Hottentotia inhabited by Bosjesmans or Bushmen of various Tribes; Koras or Koranas" and the land of the "Bichuanas". An overlay continues the coastline north from Port Natal (Durban) to Delagoa Bay (Maputo). The map also indicates towns, settlements, rivers and mountains., Relief shown by hachures., Projection not given., Appears in The London atlas of universal geography, exhibiting the physical & political divisions of the various countries of the world / John Arrowsmith. London : J. Arrowsmith, 1842.
Identifier: islandora:19587

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