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Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/8
Title:: 'Addis Abbaba to the Sobat R., via L. Rudolf.' - War Office ledger. Created by Captain M.S. Wellby
Scope & Content:: Route map showing a journey completed by Captain Wellby as a route-finding exercise from Addis Ababa to the White Nile, of which the Sobat River is a tributary. Comprises plane table sheets numbered 1 to 19 and covers a journey mostly within south-western Abyssinia from Addis Ababa 400 miles so...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1899
Extent:: 19 map sheets and 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/13
Title:: Addis Abbaba to Blue Nile. McMillan's Exped[itio]n. June 1903.' - War Office ledger. Signed by 'L[ieutenan]t. G. Ramsay-Fairfax 8.10.03.
Scope & Content:: Covers the preliminary march from Addis Abbaba to the Blue Nile near Debra Markos in western Abyssinia prior to the expedition proper downstream along the Blue Nile. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures, settlements, place names and the expedition route with campsites, and includes topographic...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1903
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/11
Title:: 'The lakes & upper Ganala & Daua R[ivers]. region. (Zwai &c). Indian Surveyors with Capt. Maud R.E.' - War Office ledger.
Scope & Content:: Adjoining map sheets depicting Captain Maud's journey in south-west Abyssinia from the north of Lake Zwai towards the frontier with British East Africa to complete a preliminary border survey. The maps are derived from plane table surveys and portray hydrology, relief by form lines and spot heig...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1903
Extent:: 2 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/32
Title:: 'Addis Abbeba to Boma, Lake Rudolf & Baringo. (E[ast]. A[frica]. P[rotectorate].)'. Created by Mr A. C. Hoey, 'Dec. 1909'.
Scope & Content:: Prismatic compass traverse from south of Baringo in western East Africa Protectorate 750 miles north-eastwards to Addis Abeba in central Abyssinia to a width of approximately 30 miles. Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines and spot heights, settlements, camps, place names and the expedition r...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1909
Extent:: 3 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/30
Title:: Map of Route between Gambela, Sayo, Gore, Anderach, Jiren, Soddo, Nejo, Mendi, Goha & Gezan. Abyssinia. Compiled at the Survey Office, Khartoum from sketches by Bimb[ashi]. H.H. Kelly. Nov. 1908.
Scope & Content:: Sheets numbered 1 to 3. Covers a route traverse in western Abyssinia extending from Gambela 200 miles south-eastwards to Anderacha, then 60 miles north-eastwards to Jiren and a further 400 miles north-westwards to Gezan. Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines and spot heights, roads and tracks...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1908
Extent:: 3 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/39/2
Title:: Tracing
Scope & Content:: Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, settlements, mission routes, churches, water sources, internal boundaries and place names, and includes topographical notes.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1922
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/AFR/ABY/12/2
Title:: Bromide
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1958]
Extent:: 1 map sheet

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