Base map is GSGS 3927 Sheet 17 bearing the printed note 'Compiled at the W[ar].O[ffice]. Heliographed and printed at O[rdnance].S[urvey]. 1933.' and an Ordnance Survey proof stamp dated 20 April 1933. Portrays hydrology, relief by contours, form lines and rock drawings, roads and tracks, settlem...
'Anglo-Italian Somaliland Boundary. Index to Italian 1/100000 Sheets'. Created by the Anglo-Italian Somaliland Boundary Commission
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Graphic index portraying the coastline, international boundary and the extent of sheets across the border between British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland.
Draft version of legend for map sheets produced by the War Office in 1909 as part of series GSGS 1764 to delimit the Uganda-Congo boundary. Photo-reproduction of an original, with manuscript annotations. Titled 'Reference'. The recto bears the annotation 'with 86-U'; the verso bears a stamp 'Ph...
Route traverses made during patrols to establish administrative authority in south-eastern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Covers a radius of approximately 85 miles from Pibor Post. Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, roads and tracks, settlements, place names and water sources, and includes topogra...
British Somaliland - Ethiopia Boundary Commission. Reduced names traces
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Reduction of names traces to field traverse sheets 1 to 3 covering the British Somaliland - Ethiopia boundary. Both a French and an English version of each names trace has been reproduced on to this single acetate sheet. The original field traverse sheets at scale 1:125,000 are filed at WOOS/34/...
'Sketch Shewing Route Traversed by the Eastern Soudan Expeditny Force under the Command of El Lewa Holled Smith Pacha, Govr General Red Sea Littoral. Sketched by Lieutenant R.S. Curtis, R.E., attached to Egyptian Army.' 'Lithographed in the Intelligence Department. Cairo 25th March 1891.'
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Covers an area on the Red Sea Littoral between Suakin and the boundary with Eritrea, including the Ruins of Tokar. Shows hydrology, relief with form lines, vegetation, routes, and the locations of military activity, with dates. Includes 2 inset maps: 'Action of Afafit. 19.2.91' scale 1:5,280; ...
Natal'. Graphic Index to Mat. Natal. 11. 'Reduced from a map compiled in the office of the Surveyor General, Natal. Drawn and printed for the War Office, at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1910.
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Graphic index showing the extent of scale 1:63,360 series Mat. Natal. 11. in north-west Natal. The map sheet covers the whole of the Natal and portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and hachures, railways, roads, telegraphs, settlements, place names and internal and international boundaries....
'Approaches to Ladysmith. S[igne]d J.A. Mackenzie-Grieve, Major R[oyal].A[rtillery]. November 1897'.
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Composite bromide. Prismatic compass survey covering an 8-mile radius around Ladysmith in western Natal. Portrays hydrology, relief by shading, vegetation, roads, railways, telegraphs, settlements, public buildings, isolated buildings, fences and place names. The sheet bears the note 'From F 19...
