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WOMAT/AFR/BEC/20
- Record Id:
- 040-003435821
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225695
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100073109269.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WOMAT/AFR/BEC/20
- Title:
- Sketch Map of Ngamiland (including Western portion of Caprivi Strip) and Ghanzi'. Also includes Correction Sheet. Created by 'Captn. A.G. Stigand between Feb. 1910 and Aug. 1922.
- Scope & Content:
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Topographical map produced from a series of compass traverses (dated 1910-1922) in north-west Bechuanaland Protectorate and extending into the Caprivi Strip in German South West Africa. Portrays hydrology and land subject to inundation, relief by spot heights, form lines, hachures and rock drawing, vegetation, roads and tracks, traverse routes, settlements and isolated buildings, place names, water sources, international boundaries and the limits of tsetse fly. Also includes topographical notes, compilation notes and tables of road distances.
A correction sheet drawn to the same specification extends between Maun and Lekawen Drift, 5 miles to the north-east, and includes topographical and compilation notes.
The main map bears the note 'L.P.P. Dept'.
'See G.S. 2988 [filed at Maps MOD GSGS 2988] for reproduction.' - War Office ledger.
'Copy of R.G.S. original.' - War Office ledger.
Ten pages of notes ('10 pp. of notes' - War Office ledger) were not present on transfer; an annotation alongside the ledger listing reads 'tracings returned but not notes'.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225695
036-002225925
037-002225954
038-003433240
040-003435821 - 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/20 : Sketch Map of Ngamiland (including Western portion of Caprivi Strip) and Ghanzi'. Also includes Correction Sheet. Created by… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225695[0001]/036-002225925[0001]/037-002225954[0004]/038-003433240[0017]/040-003435821
- 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):
- 20.0952,-20.8409,24.7143,-17.5455
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 20°5’43”-E 24°42’51”/S 17°32’44”-S 20°50’27”
- Orientation:
- North
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Manuscript: coloured ink, watercolour, pencil and crayon;75 x 100cm and 36 x 25cm
- Former External References:
- Mat. Bechuanaland. 20.
- 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
Caprivi Strip, South West Africa
German South West Africa, Africa
Ghanzi, Ghanzi, Bechuanaland Protectorate
Lekawen Drift, Batawana, British Bechuanaland
Maun, Batawana, Bechuanaland Protectorate
Ngamiland, Bechuanaland - Related Material:
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A description of the expedition is given at:
· G.A. Stigand, 'Ngamiland’, The Geographical Journal, 62(1923), 401-419 and map after p. 476.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- WOMAT/AFR/BEC/25