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WOMAT/AFR/ABY/4
- Record Id:
- 040-003380116
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225695
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100048137011.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WOMAT/AFR/ABY/4
- Title:
- 'Routes from Gildessa to Adis Ababa.' - War Office ledger. Created by Brevet Major C.W. Gwynn R.E.
- Scope & Content:
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Depicts a selection of routes within a 250-mile corridor of approximately 50 miles width between Gildessa and Adis Ababa in central Abyssinia.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225695
036-002225925
037-002225954
038-003375091
040-003380116 - Is part of:
- WOA : War Office Archive: cartographic and topographic source material
WOMAT : War Office 'Material'
WOMAT/AFR : 'Material - Africa'.
WOMAT/AFR/ABY : Material. Abyssinia.
WOMAT/AFR/ABY/4 : 'Routes from Gildessa to Adis Ababa.' - War Office ledger. Created by Brevet Major C.W. Gwynn R.E. - Contains:
- WOMAT/AFR/ABY/4/1 : Route sketches
WOMAT/AFR/ABY/4/2 : Map of the Routes from Gildessa to Adis Ababa
Click here to View / search full list of parts of WOMAT/AFR/ABY/4 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225695[0001]/036-002225925[0001]/037-002225954[0001]/038-003375091[0002]/040-003380116
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WOA
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 7 map sheets
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1900
- End Date:
- 1900
- Date Range:
- 1900
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- F/3470
Mat. Abyssinia. 4. - Former Internal References:
- MLC 0011444
- Administrative Context:
-
'(Used for Sudan 250,000)' - War Office ledger
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gwynn, Charles William, Knight, army officer, geographer, explorer and writer, 1870-1963
- Places:
- Adis Ababa, Abyssinia
Gildessa, Harrar, Abyssinia - Related Material:
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A map compiled from these materials, and an account of Gwynn's 1908 expedition in the same vicinity, can be found at:
- C.W. Gwynn, 'A Journey in Southern Abyssinia', The Geographical Journal, 38 (1911), pp. 113-139 and map after p. 232.