Northern Rhodesia - Portuguese Kwando Boundary Commission 1960-64. Copies of Documents Relating to the Agreements Between the United Kingdom and Portugal dated 1954 and the Exchange of Notes Between the United Kingdom and Portugal dated 1964.
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Comprises the following. All items are photocopies of 1963-1964 originals. Original envelopes and folders have been retained. Lists of final geographical coordinates and azimuths for first and second order triangulation (in Portuguese) (pp2-5 missing) with copy of covering letter. 125 pages and...
Northern Rhodesia Boundaries, including the Barotse Kingdom and Southern Rhodesia
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Comprises the following. (Original envelopes have been retained.) [Barotseland: The delineation of Barotseland's western border was submitted in 1903 to an Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Commission. Disagreement between the two countries instigated the appointment of the King of Italy as an Arbitrat...
Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Commission North and South of the Zambesi 1904-1906
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The boundary between Rhodesia and Mozambique, North and South of the Zambesi, was described by a Procès-verbaux in 1904 and approved by an Agreement in 1911. The following are included: Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Commission. North of the Zambesi. 1904. Angle Book 1 to 7. Bound volume of 7 Angle...
Observation books and report produced as part of the boundary demarcation between lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika, delimiting the territories of Rhodesia, British Central Africa and German East Africa. Comprises the following: 5 bound volumes of observations entitled 'Nyasa-Tanganyika Boundary. 1898...
'Geodetic Survey of South Africa. Under the Direction of Sir David Gill.'
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Comprises the following: Volume III. 'Report on the Geodetic Survey of Part of Southern Rhodesia. Executed by Mr. Alexander Simms.' 1 volume of 146 pages. Includes pull-out folio 'Triangulation Plan Geodetic Survey Rhodesia', scale 1:1,000,000 and 6 pages of additional typed coordinates (2 of w...
Comprises the following: Notebook of astronomical and sun observations dated 1898-1899 and taken on Major A. St Hill Gibbons' expedition to Barotseland. Manuscript: coloured ink and pencil on ruled paper; 16 x 10cm. 'Astronomical Observation Angle Book'. Observations dated 1902-1903 and taken ...
Comprises the following folders, with material mostly compiled by 7 Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers and Survey of Egypt. Some survey observation books have headers in Arabic: 1 survey observation book (30 x 26cm) with 44 pages of inserted observations and notes. Dated 1919-1921. (No. 070?...
Comprises the following, compiled by 7 Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers: 36 Angle Books (19 x 21cm). Various numbering systems. Book 'Beersheba - Jerusalem Angle Book 1' bears the note 'Recopied from books spoilt by rain'. Some books have loose pages of observations inserted. Dated 1917-19...