Archive Reference (shelfmark): WOA / Material Type: Maps and Plans - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/BEC/10/2
Title:: Town Plan: '[Old] Palapye. Or Khamas Town.'
Scope & Content:: Labelled 'E'. Sheet bears the note 'Insert to B' (see BEC/10/1/1).
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1892
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/BEC/11
Title:: Bechuanaland Protectorate.' - War Office ledger. Signed by 'F.W. Panzera. Lt. Col. Acting Res[iden]t. Commissioner Bech[uanalan]d. Protectorate. 25:2:05.
Scope & Content:: Whole-country general map. Detail in remoter areas tends to be concentrated around expedition routes. Portrays hydrology, relief by delimiting lines around major upland areas, roads, settlements, place names and administrative boundaries, and includes topographical notes. The sheet bears the no...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1905
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/BEC/12
Title:: Ngamiland and Kalahari Desert. Compiled by 'Lieut. A.J.B. Wavell, The Welch Regiment' and signed by 'R.L. McLintock, Major R.E. acting D[eputy].A[ssistant].Q[uarter].M[aster].G[eneral]. for Intelligence'.
Scope & Content:: Mapping produced by Lieutenant A.J.B. Wavell, tasked with crossing the Kalahari Desert and reporting on the Bechuanaland Protectorate while on secondment to the War Office. 'From D[eputy].A[ssistant].Q[uarter].M[aster].G[eneral]. for Intell[igence]. Pretoria. T.S.G.S. 2150.' - War Office ledger...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1905-1906
Extent:: 2 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/BEC/12/1
Title:: Map of Ngamiland and Adjoining Territories
Scope & Content:: General map of Ngamiland, north-western Bechuanaland Protectorate. Compiled from tracheameter traverse and astronomical observations, with detail largely confined to traverse routes. Portrays hydrology, relief by stylised hachures around principal features only, railways, roads and tracks, settle...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1905
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/BEC/12/2
Title:: 'Rough Map to Illustrate the Distribution of Water and Vegetation in the Kalahari Desert'
Scope & Content:: Covers the Kalahari Desert in both Bechuanaland Protectorate and British Bechuanaland. Portrays 5 categories of land based on vegetation and water availability criteria.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1906
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/BEC/13
Title:: Sketch Map of Route to Chobi and Victoria Falls. (Sgd) A. Wienholt Hodson July 1906.
Scope & Content:: Covers the route of the Resident Commissioner's journey from Tsau in north-western Bechuanaland Protectorate 400 miles north-eastwards to the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia. Portrays hydrology, principal relief features by stylised hachures, roads, settlements, water sources, significant trees, plac...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1906
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/BEC/14
Title:: 'Mafeking'. Created by 'Col. Vyvyan, "The Buffs" during the Seige'.
Scope & Content:: Second Boer War Siege map. Covers the town of Mafeking and surrounding area in Bechuanaland Protectorate and Cape Colony to a radius of 3 miles. Portrays hydrology, relief by shading and hachures, roads and tracks, railways, settlements and isolated buildings, vegetation and military installatio...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1900-1909
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/BEC/15
Title:: Rietfontein'. Created by 'H.S.P. Simon Capt. Duke of Cornwall's L[ight].I[nfantry]. May. 1910.
Scope & Content:: Covers a road corridor extending 100 miles south-southeastwards from Rietfontein in western British Bechuanaland to a width of approximately 25 miles. Portrays hydrology, relief by approximate form lines and trigonometrical station heights, roads and tracks, settlements, place names, halting pla...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1910
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/BEC/18
Title:: '"Ngamiland" (tracings of correction to G.S. No: 2988).' - War Office ledger. Created by A.G. Stigand, 1922.
Scope & Content:: Two tracings numbered 'Sheet 1' and 'Sheet 2' providing corrections and additions to amendment traces surveyed by A.G. Stigand earlier the same year. The traces cover southern Ngamiland in north-western Bechuanaland Protectorate and portray hydrology, relief by form lines and rock drawing, veget...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1922
Extent:: 2 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/BEC/20
Title:: Sketch Map of Ngamiland (including Western portion of Caprivi Strip) and Ghanzi'. Also includes Correction Sheet. Created by 'Captn. A.G. Stigand between Feb. 1910 and Aug. 1922.
Scope & Content:: Topographical map produced from a series of compass traverses (dated 1910-1922) in north-west Bechuanaland Protectorate and extending into the Caprivi Strip in German South West Africa. Portrays hydrology and land subject to inundation, relief by spot heights, form lines, hachures and rock drawi...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1922
Extent:: 2 map sheets

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