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WOMAT/AFR/BEC/18
- Record Id:
- 040-003435798
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225695
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100072881567.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WOMAT/AFR/BEC/18
- Title:
- '"Ngamiland" (tracings of correction to G.S. No: 2988).' - War Office ledger. Created by A.G. Stigand, 1922.
- Scope & Content:
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Two tracings numbered 'Sheet 1' and 'Sheet 2' providing corrections and additions to amendment traces surveyed by A.G. Stigand earlier the same year. The traces cover southern Ngamiland in north-western Bechuanaland Protectorate and portray hydrology, relief by form lines and rock drawing, vegetation, roads and tracks, settlements and isolated buildings, place names and the southern limit of tsetse fly, and include topographical, logistical and sheet history notes.
'Embodied on the revision of G.S. No. 2988 [filed at Maps MOD GSGS 2988]' - War Office ledger.
'Used on 1925 ed[itio]n' - War Office ledger.
Sheet 1 signed by 'G.M.A.'; Sheet 2 signed by 'A.G. Stigand'.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225695
036-002225925
037-002225954
038-003433240
040-003435798 - Is part of:
- WOA : War Office Archive: cartographic and topographic source material
WOMAT : War Office 'Material'
WOMAT/AFR : 'Material - Africa'.
WOMAT/AFR/BEC : Material. Bechuanaland.
WOMAT/AFR/BEC/18 : '"Ngamiland" (tracings of correction to G.S. No: 2988).' - War Office ledger. Created by A.G. Stigand, 1922. - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225695[0001]/036-002225925[0001]/037-002225954[0004]/038-003433240[0016]/040-003435798
- 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
- Scale:
- Scale 1:500,000
- Scale Designator:
- Horizontal
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 22.0000,-20.6667,24.0000,-19.8095
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 22°0’0”-E 24°0’0”/S 19°48’34”-S 20°40’0”
- Orientation:
- North
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Manuscript: coloured ink, pencil and crayon on tracing paper; 23 x 50cm and 26 x 39cm
- Former External References:
- Mat. Bechuanaland. 18.
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Stigand, Almar Gordon, army officer and colonial administrator, 1876-1956
- Places:
- Bechuanaland Protectorate, Africa
Ngamiland, Bechuanaland - Related Material:
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An account of the expedition is given at:
· G.A. Stigand, 'Ngamiland’, The Geographical Journal, 62 (1923), 401-419 and map after p. 476.