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Reference (shelfmark):: WOOG/242/2/2
Title:: Index map
Scope & Content:: The base map is IDWO 1212, printed in 1897, to which has been added the sheet lines and numbering of the associated contoured field sketches (WOOG/242/2/1). The data added to the smaller sheet does not relate to these field sketches.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1898
Extent:: 2 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOOG/259
Title:: 'Hong Kong from Ordnance map surveyed by Lieut. Collinson, R.E. 1845. I.D.W.O. 1137–Proof. Heliozincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office Southampton. 1896.' Endorsed 'W.H. Molloy Colonel on the Staff Commanding Royal Engineer in China 11th October 1895'
Scope & Content:: Covers Hong Kong Island, Lamma Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. Shows relief with contours, settlements, roads, and look-out points. Place-names are given in English and romanised Cantonese
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1895-1896
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOOG/288
Title:: 'Sketch of the Battle of Khartum. 2nd September. 1898' 'Traced by S. Scrutton, 2nd Cpl RE 15.9/98. Surveyed by M.G. Talbot Major. R.E. 8.9.98. Troops by H. Rawlinson, Capt D.A.A.G.
Scope & Content:: Shows the relative positions British and Egyptian, and Dervish forces at three stages of the battle, which was subsequently known as the Battle of Omdurman
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1898
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOOG/300
Title:: 'China. Map of British Territory Wei-Hai-Wei Surveyed in the Autumn of 1898 with Theodolite, Plane Table, and Abney |Level' 'Surveyed and Drawn by a Party of Royal Engineers under the Superintendence of Major C. Penrose, R.E.' - title sheet
Scope & Content:: Covers the Territory in north-eastern Shantung Province leased by Great Britain from China under the Convention of 1898. Shows contoured relief, hydrology, settlements, communications, and the boundary of the Territory. Names of settlements are in non-standard romanised Chinese, natural features...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1898
Extent:: 4 map sheets, with a smaller title sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOOG/432
Title:: 'Map of vicinity of Port Louis' 'Capt. Harrison i/c of Sur. Section.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Covers the Port Louis, Mauritius, and its environs. Shows contoured and hachured relief, trignometrical stations, hydrology, settlements, and communications, with indications of terrain, and the extent of sugar plantations.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1902
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOOG/497
Title:: Berbera-Harrar Railway. 'Sd. SL. Craster, Maj. RE.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Preliminary drawings for a proposed 250-mile railway from Berbera in northern British Somaliland to Harrar in eastern Abyssinia.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1903
Extent:: 8 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOOG/498
Title:: 'Battle of Magersfontein' 'I.D.W.O. 1622' 'Original supplied by Lieut. Cuthbert, Scots Guards.' 'Capt. Harrison i/c of Sur. Section.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Covers the field of battle south of Kimberly on the border between Cape Colony and the Orange Free State. Shows relief, hydrology, settlements, communications, and the disposition of the forces.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: ca 1902
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOOG/590
Title:: Nigeria, Yola Province
Scope & Content:: A set of compilation material relating to the production and subsequent revision of GSGS 2311
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1907-1914
Extent:: 12 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOOG/590/1
Title:: Nigeria Yola Province. Traced from various Maps. 20/7/07 C. Vicars Boyle a.R.
Scope & Content:: Shows relief with form lines, hydrology, routes, settlements and district and colonial boundaries. Gives some indication of topography and vegetation.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1907
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOOG/590/2
Title:
Scope & Content:: Revision material for the GSGS map of Yola province, covering an area approximately 8 miles south and south-west of Yola town. Comprises 2 field sheets, with a photo-reduction at 1:125,000 on which significant revisions to relief is plotted with detailed form lines.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: ca 1913
Extent:: 3 map sheets

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