Compilation materials for sheets at scale 1:50,000
Scope & Content:
Comprises triangulation point schedules, graticule verification diagrams, boundary point plots, edge-match plots, relief profiles, names and terminology sheets, and location photographs. In Italian, with some English translations. Materials relate to series GSGS 3918 produced in 18 sheets at sc...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1929-1932
Extent:
12 map sheets, 16 photographs, 34 folios and 14 folders
Compilation materials for sheets at scale 1:250,000
Scope & Content:
Comprises map revision sheets, boundary point plots, edge-match plots, names check sheets and correction lists. In Italian, with some English translations. Materials relate to series GSGS 3927 sheets 2, 7, 12, 16 and 17 published by the War Office 1933-35 and filed at Maps MOD GSGS 3927.
A series of adjoining route sketches numbered Ia, Ib, II, III, IV and V. The sheets portray hydrology, relief by form lines and spot heights, roads, telegraphs, settlements and place names, and include topographical and expedition notes.
Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, roads, settlements, camping grounds and place names. The sheet bears a compilation note referring to earlier surveys by 'Captn. Count Gleichen', 'Captn. Swayne' and 'Mr. Clarke'.
'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...
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.
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 (...
