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WOMAT/AFR/ABY/39
- Record Id:
- 040-003390026
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225695
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100051765085.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WOMAT/AFR/ABY/39
- Title:
- Tana Mission Routes between Lake Tana and Roseires.' Signed by 'G.Y.K[arkanis].
- Scope & Content:
- Map sheet and amendment tracing to portray the 200-mile mission routes between Lake Tana in north-western Abyssinia and Roseires in south-eastern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The missions were undertaken in 1920-21 to investigate the prospects of a dam to regulate the flow of the Blue Nile.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225695
036-002225925
037-002225954
038-003375091
040-003390026 - 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/39 : Tana Mission Routes between Lake Tana and Roseires.' Signed by 'G.Y.K[arkanis]. - Contains:
- WOMAT/AFR/ABY/39/1 : Sun-print
WOMAT/AFR/ABY/39/2 : Tracing
Click here to View / search full list of parts of WOMAT/AFR/ABY/39 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225695[0001]/036-002225925[0001]/037-002225954[0001]/038-003375091[0028]/040-003390026
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WOA
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 2 map sheets
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1922
- End Date:
- 1922
- Date Range:
- 1922
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Custodial History:
- 'From Surveyor-General Khartum. File C/354.' - War Office ledger
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Karkanis, George Yanni, geologist, fl 1918-1954
- Places:
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Africa
Blue Nile, Abyssinia / Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Lake Tana, Amhara, Abyssinia
Roseires, Upper Nile, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan - Related Material:
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An account of the journeys and survey is given at:
- G.W. Grabham and R.P. Black, Report of the Mission to Lake Tana 1920-21 (Cairo: Ministry of Public Works, 1925).