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WOMAT/AFR/ABY/27
- Record Id:
- 040-003385354
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225695
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100049778193.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WOMAT/AFR/ABY/27
- Title:
- 'Southern Abyssinia Boundary Commission.' Created by 'Maj. C.W. Gwynn R.E. Capt. R.L. Waller R.E. Commissioners. 1908 to 1909' - War Office ledger
- Scope & Content:
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Map sheets produced to accompany the delimitation of the southern Abyssinia boundary with Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and East Africa Protectorate.
Note: The spellings 'Adis Ababa' and 'Addis Abbeba' are used on the map sheets; the variant 'Addis Abbaba' is used in the War Office ledger.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225695
036-002225925
037-002225954
038-003375091
040-003385354 - 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/27 : 'Southern Abyssinia Boundary Commission.' Created by 'Maj. C.W. Gwynn R.E. Capt. R.L. Waller R.E. Commissioners. 1908… - Contains:
- WOMAT/AFR/ABY/27/1 : 'Preliminary Surveys' - War Office ledger
WOMAT/AFR/ABY/27/2 : 'B[ou]nd[ar]y. Work.' - War Office ledger
WOMAT/AFR/ABY/27/3 : 'Work by Cavalry sketching case.' - War Office ledger
WOMAT/AFR/ABY/27/4 : Revised Draft. S.& S.W. of Addis Abbaba.' - War Office ledger. Signed by 'C.W. Gwynn Major R.E. 10.12.09.
WOMAT/AFR/ABY/27/5 : 'Africa. Sheets 67.J,K,L,N,O,P. with M[anu]S[cript]. Add[itio]ns. showing extent of Maj.Gwynn's work.' - War Office…
Click here to View / search full list of parts of WOMAT/AFR/ABY/27 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225695[0001]/036-002225925[0001]/037-002225954[0001]/038-003375091[0021]/040-003385354
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WOA
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 50 map sheets
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1905
- End Date:
- 1909
- Date Range:
- 1905-1909
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- Mat. Abyssinia. 27.
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Anglo-Abyssinian Boundary Commission, 1908-1909
Gwynn, Charles William, Knight, army officer, geographer, explorer and writer, 1870-1963
Waller, Richard Lancelot, army officer, 1875-1961 - Places:
- Adis Ababa, Abyssinia
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Africa
East Africa Protectorate, East Africa - Related Material:
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An account of the expedition and survey methods is given at:
· C.W. Gwynn, ‘A Journey in Southern Abyssinia’, The Geographical Journal, 38(1911), 113-139 and map after p. 232.
· R.E. Drake-Brockman, ‘A Journey from Dolo along the Dawa River to Banissa and through Borona to Addis Ababa’, unpublished manuscript sent to The Geographical Journal (1910) [Housed in the Royal Geographical Society archives.]
A description of the frontier is given in the Boundary Commission's report to the Foreign Office at:
· C.W. Gwynn, 'Memorandum respecting the Southern Frontier of Abyssinia', in African Boundaries by Ian Brownlie (Luton: Hurst, 1979), pp. 780-88.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- WOMAT/ADD/82/2