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WOMAT/AFR/BEA/261
- Record Id:
- 040-002879519
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225695
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023804433.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100164340665.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WOMAT/AFR/BEA/261
- Title:
- Sketch Map to Illustrate the New Kenya - Uganda Boundary. Uganda Survey Dept.
- Scope & Content:
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Covers the northernmost portion of the Kenya - Uganda border from the Sudanese border to Mount Elgon, approximately 220 miles southwards. Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and form lines, roads and tracks, settlements, place names, tribal areas and the international boundary.
The sheet bears the printed note 'Uganda Survey Dept. No. A442' and the manuscript note 'For description of bdy see File M.I.4c/86 later see "Order in Council, 1926" Matl. 27/4'.
The War Office ledger lists the author as 'P.W. Perryman'.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225695
036-002225925
037-002225954
038-002754218
040-002879519 - Is part of:
- WOA : War Office Archive: cartographic and topographic source material
WOMAT : War Office 'Material'
WOMAT/AFR : 'Material - Africa'.
WOMAT/AFR/BEA : Material. British East Africa.
WOMAT/AFR/BEA/261 : Sketch Map to Illustrate the New Kenya - Uganda Boundary. Uganda Survey Dept. - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225695[0001]/036-002225925[0001]/037-002225954[0003]/038-002754218[0263]/040-002879519
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WOA
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 map sheet
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=WOMAT/AFR/BEA/261 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-

- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1922
- End Date:
- 1922
- Date Range:
- 1922
- Era:
- CE
- Scale:
- Scale 1:500,000
- Scale Designator:
- Horizontal
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 33.5000,1.0000,35.5000,4.3636
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 33°30’0”-E 35°30’0”/N 4°21’49”-N 1°0’0”
- Orientation:
- North
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Dyeline, with manuscript additions in watercolour and pencil; 78 x 49cm
- Former External References:
- Mat. British East Africa. 261.
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Perryman, Percy Otto St Clair Wilbraham, colonial administrator, 1885-1933
Uganda Survey Department, 1900- - Places:
- Mount Elgon, Kenya / Uganda
Sudan, Africa - Related Material:
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The boundary alignment is described in:
Brownlie, Ian. 1979. African Boundaries (Luton: Hurst), pp.923-55, filed at X800.27875