Covers an area approximately 200 miles to the north, east and south of Harrar in eastern Abyssinia. Portrays hydrology, railways, settlements, tribal territories and place names. The sheet bears the typescript note 'Map copied from Map of Abyssinia, (Provisional Issue), compiled by War Office,...
Maji Frontier Mission, 1919' - War Office ledger. Created by 'Major L.F.I. Athill R[oyal]. F[ield]. A[rtillery].
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Sheets numbered 1 to 3, produced as part of an expedition to suppress a border altercation between Abyssinian and Sudanese troops at Kangala in south-eastern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Compass traverse covering the 360-mile route from Maji in south-western Abyssinia across the border to Kangala and L...
Tana Mission Routes between Lake Tana and Roseires.' Signed by 'G.Y.K[arkanis].
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Map sheet and amendment tracing to portray the 200-mile mission routes between Lake Tana in north-western Abyssinia and Roseires in south-eastern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The missions were undertaken in 1920-21 to investigate the prospects of a dam to regulate the flow of the Blue Nile.
Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, settlements, mission routes, churches, water sources, triangulation points, place names and international and internal boundaries, and includes topographical and surveying notes. The sheet bears notes describing the contributions of the Sudan Survey Dep...
Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, settlements, mission routes, churches, water sources, internal boundaries and place names, and includes topographical notes.
'Abyssinia:- Compilation in 35 sheets with index. (Con. Signs, Notes etc typewritten, in dup).' - War Office ledger
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Map series with graphic index, conventional signs reference sheet and compilation history. Provides full country coverage of Abyssinia. Some sheets were later used to compile series GSGS 3989 and OR 788.
Map sheets. Created by Captain W.H. Tapp, R.E. and Mr P.T. Scotland
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Map sheets numbered 1 to 35. Sheets portray hydrology, relief by form lines, hachures and spot heights, vegetation, railways, roads and tracks, telegraphs, settlements, significant buildings, place names and internal and international boundaries, and include topographical notes. Detail outside A...
Graphic index to map sheets at ABY/40/1. Base map is Topographical Section, General Staff, No. 2319 dated 1918, and portrays hydrology, relief by layer tinting, railways, roads and tracks, telegraphs, settlements, place names and international boundaries. Graphic index detail is added in manuscr...
