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Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/8
Title:: 'Addis Abbaba to the Sobat R., via L. Rudolf.' - War Office ledger. Created by Captain M.S. Wellby
Scope & Content:: Route map showing a journey completed by Captain Wellby as a route-finding exercise from Addis Ababa to the White Nile, of which the Sobat River is a tributary. Comprises plane table sheets numbered 1 to 19 and covers a journey mostly within south-western Abyssinia from Addis Ababa 400 miles so...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1899
Extent:: 19 map sheets and 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/9/1
Title:: 'Plan of Road from Genjabiet to Wambera, Daboke and Famaka. Showing also the Junction of Rivers Abai and Didessa.'
Scope & Content:: Covers a 100-mile road corridor in western Abyssinia from Genjabiet westwards to Wambera. The map extends a further 30 miles westwards to the Blue Nile (Abai River) and into Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures and spot heights, roads and tracks, settlements, camps and pl...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1902
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/9/2
Title:: Survey of the Wambera Plateau Showing the various Routes approaching.
Scope & Content:: Covers an 18-mile radius of Wambera in western Abyssinia. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures and spot heights, roads, settlements and place names.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1902
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/11
Title:: 'The lakes & upper Ganala & Daua R[ivers]. region. (Zwai &c). Indian Surveyors with Capt. Maud R.E.' - War Office ledger.
Scope & Content:: Adjoining map sheets depicting Captain Maud's journey in south-west Abyssinia from the north of Lake Zwai towards the frontier with British East Africa to complete a preliminary border survey. The maps are derived from plane table surveys and portray hydrology, relief by form lines and spot heig...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1903
Extent:: 2 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/12/2
Title:: Bromide
Scope & Content:: Creation date derived from accession stamp. This map is a copy of a 1903 tracing filed at WOMAT/AFR/ABY/12/1, and contains detail at the northern edge now lacking from that tracing.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1958]
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/13
Title:: Addis Abbaba to Blue Nile. McMillan's Exped[itio]n. June 1903.' - War Office ledger. Signed by 'L[ieutenan]t. G. Ramsay-Fairfax 8.10.03.
Scope & Content:: Covers the preliminary march from Addis Abbaba to the Blue Nile near Debra Markos in western Abyssinia prior to the expedition proper downstream along the Blue Nile. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures, settlements, place names and the expedition route with campsites, and includes topographic...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1903
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/14/1
Title:: Plane table sheets
Scope & Content:: Sheets are numbered 1 to 22; another is lettered 'D'; and another, imperfect on transfer, is of indeterminate designation. Another unnumbered sheet covers the same geographical extent as Sheet 1, although the survey detail is different. There is also a supplementary sheet to Sheet 5. Sheets 1 (...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1903
Extent:: 26 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/15/1
Title:: 'Road from Harrar to Elgobaia & Elgobaia to Tukkawaka' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Sheet comprises 2 road corridor maps of approximately 5 miles width, extending 50 miles south-eastwards from Harrar in eastern Abyssinia: Harrar to Elgobaia (40 miles) Elgobaia to Tukka Waka (10 miles) Portrays hydrology, relief by approximate contours and hachures, roads, settlements, camps and...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1904
Extent:: 1 map sheet

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