Untitled map covering a 520-mile flying route from Kurmuk eastwards to Addis Ababa. Portrays hydrology, indicative relief, railways, settlements, place names, international boundaries and the flying route. Also includes 2 unscaled strip map insets showing flying directions to Gore from the east a...
'Air Route:- Kurmuk to Addis Abbaba.' Created by 'Captain Erskine. 1932' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:
Sketch map and lithographs depicting an air route from Kurmuk in eastern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan to Addis Ababa with intermediate landing places; centred on Gore in western Abyssinia. Note: The spelling 'Addis Ababa' is used on the maps; the variant 'Addis Abbaba' is used in the War Office ledger.
Lithograph covering a 520-mile flying route from Kurmuk eastwards to Addis Ababa. Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines (around significant peaks on flight path only), railways, settlements, place names, international boundaries and the flying route. Also includes 2 unscaled strip map insets ...
'Supplementary Sketches By Captain. E.N. Erskine 1935 to Accompany his Maps of 'Air Route Kurmuk - Addis Ababa & Gore Landing Ground'
Scope & Content:
Lithograph depicting unscaled relief profiles looking eastwards and westwards from Gore. Portrays relief outlines with bearings and place names. The sheet bears the note 'Reproduced by the Sudan Survey Dept Khartoum, March, 1936 from a sketch supplied by the author. (Topo. No. S.532-36).'
