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WOMAT/AFR/ABY/45
- Record Id:
- 040-003390516
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225695
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100052034201.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WOMAT/AFR/ABY/45
- Title:
- 'Traverse from Hawash to Lake Assale.' - War Office ledger. Created by L.M. Nesbitt
- Scope & Content:
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Traverse sheets and compilation portraying L.M. Nesbitt's 500-mile south to north crossing of the Danakil Desert, north-eastern Abyssinia in 1928.
Note: The confirmed spelling 'Awash' appears on the map face; the unconfirmed variant 'Hawash' appears in the title.
Note: Minor discrepancies in positions, detail and place names exist between the traverse sheets and the compilation.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225695
036-002225925
037-002225954
038-003375091
040-003390516 - 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/45 : 'Traverse from Hawash to Lake Assale.' - War Office ledger. Created by L.M. Nesbitt - Contains:
- WOMAT/AFR/ABY/45/1 : Traverse of Mr. L.M. Nesbitt 1928
WOMAT/AFR/ABY/45/2 : 'Danakil'.
Click here to View / search full list of parts of WOMAT/AFR/ABY/45 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225695[0001]/036-002225925[0001]/037-002225954[0001]/038-003375091[0030]/040-003390516
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WOA
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 8 map sheets
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1928
- End Date:
- 1934
- Date Range:
- 1928-[1934]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- 'See also notes & sketches taken by M.I.2 a.' - War Office ledger
- Names:
- Nesbitt, Ludovico Mariano, mining engineer and explorer, 1891-1935
- Places:
- Danakil Desert, Abyssinia
Hawash, Shoa, Abyssinia
Lake Assale, Afar, Abyssinia - Related Material:
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Descriptions of the expedition can be found at:
- L.M. Nesbitt, 'From South to North Through Danakil', The Geographical Journal, 73 (1929), 529-39.
- L.M. Nesbitt, 'Danakil Traversed from South to North', The Geographical Journal, 76 (1930), 298-315; 391-414; and 545-57.
- L.M. Nesbitt, Desert and Forest: The Exploration of Abyssinian Danakil (Jonathon Cape, London, 1934).