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Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/60/2
Title:: 'General Map as Index.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Graphic index portraying the map sheets at ABY/60/1, although there are some minor inconsistencies in sheet limits. Portrays hydrology, roads, churches, place names and sheetlines, and includes tables of lake extent for selected lake surface elevations.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/60/3
Title:: List of Churches Located Near Lake Tsana.
Scope & Content:: Numbered list of churches cross-referenced to the map sheets at ABY/60/1 and ABY/60/2. Includes the elevation of each church together with details of its structural condition, internal decoration and accessibility at times of high lake levels. The title page bears the statements 'Appendix II' a...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1934
Extent:: 22 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/61
Title:: 'General map around & West of Lake Tana, showing proposed highways.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Reproductions of an original single-sheet map. Covers routes between Lake Tana in north-western Abyssinia and Roseires 200 miles westwards in eastern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures and form lines, proposed roads, existing roads and tracks, telephone lines, settlemen...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: between 1927-1934
Extent:: 2 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/62
Title:: 'Adis Ababa to Gezan in Sudan.' Created by 'Capt. Taylor RA and [Capt.] Dunlop 1935' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Covers a 600-mile journey from Addis Ababa in central Abyssinia westwards along the main caravan route to Gezan in south-eastern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The spelling 'Adis Ababa' is used in the War Office ledger; the spellings 'Addis Ababa' and 'Adis Abeba' are used on the maps. Dunlop's rank ap...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1931-1935
Extent:: 8 map sheets and 4 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/62/1
Title:: Route traverse
Scope & Content:: Compass traverse plotted on to base mapping. Includes variant spelling of town Nekempti (see also ABY/62/4).
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 6 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/62/1/1
Title:: Bromides
Scope & Content:: Base maps are reproductions of WOMAT/AFR/ABY/40/1 sheets 11, 12, 13, 18 and 19 and 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, an...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 5 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/62/1/2
Title:: Tracing
Scope & Content:: Base map is a tracing of part of an original survey by Enrico Cerulli in 1928 and portrays hydrology, relief by form lines and spot heights, the expedition route, settlements and significant buildings; also includes place names and topographical notes in Italian. Compass traverse added in manu...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/62/2
Title:: 'Classification of Towns & Villages.'
Scope & Content:: Plotted on to lithographed base map Geographic Section, General Staff, No. 2871, Sheet North C.36 37/B.36 37 titled 'Abyssinia', 2nd Edition, 1931 (a copy is filed at Maps MOD GSGS 2871). Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and gradient tints, railways, roads and tracks, telegraph lines, ...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1931-1935
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/62/3
Title:: 'Dadesa River (Abyssinia)'
Scope & Content:: Time and compass traverse along the Dadesa River in western Abyssinia from a point near Nekemti and extending 100 miles north-westwards to the confluence with the Abbai River. Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, vegetation, roads and tracks and place names, and includes topographical and c...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/62/4
Title:: Aneroid Barometer Readings, Lekemti to Qezan
Scope & Content:: Original list and typescript copy of barometer readings, with covering note. In tabular form, showing place name, aneroid number, reading, time, temperature, correction from diurnal curve, corrected reading, mean and point on sketch (filed at ABY/62/3). The spellings 'Lekemti' and 'Qezan' are ...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 4 folios

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