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TRIG/6
- Record Id:
- 040-003441194
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003440772
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075569436.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- TRIG/6
- Title:
- Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Whole boundary. Folders 31-39.
- Scope & Content:
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Records of survey observations, computations and station descriptions, including Belgian values, along the Northern Rhodesia-Belgian Congo boundary. Extends to Angola tripoint. Includes some fold-out maps. Comprises:
- Folder 31. Technical Report
- Folder 32. Belgian Values
- Folder 33. Record of Observations
- Folder 34. Ruling and Minor Triangulation. Final Results.
- Folder 35. Description of Trig. Stations
- Folder 36. Trig. Carried Out by Previous Party - 1929
- Folder 37. Major and Minor Triangulation 1930. Computations.
- Folder 38. Boundary Traverse. Cassini Soldner Computations.
- Folder 39. Boundary Traverse. Computations.
Used in the compilation of Geographical Section, General Staff No. 4044, 7 sheets at scale 1:250,000 dated 1941 filed at Maps X.6262.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003440772
040-003441194 - Is part of:
- TRIG : War Office/Ministry of Defence Trigonometrical/Geodetic Library Material
TRIG/6 : Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Whole boundary. Folders 31-39. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003440772[0006]/040-003441194
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: TRIG
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 9 folders
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1929
- End Date:
- 1933
- Date Range:
- 1929-1933
- Era:
- CE
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 23.9000,-13.4000,29.8200,-8.0000
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 23°54’0”-E 29°49’12”/S 8°0’0”-S 13°24’0”
- Orientation:
- North
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Printed and typescript, with manuscript additions in coloured ink and pencil; 69 x 50cm or smaller
- Former External References:
- DS 305 D(4)
DS 350 C - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933, 1927-1933
- Places:
- Angola, Africa
Belgian Congo, Central Africa
Northern Rhodesia, Africa - Related Material:
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The legal basis of the Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-33 can be found at:
Brownlie, Ian, African Boundaries (London: Hurst, 1979), pp.708-12
An overview and analysis of the Commission's work can be found at:
Donaldson, John, Wade, Marking Territory: Demarcation of the DRC-Zambia Boundary from 1894 to the Present Day. Doctoral thesis, Durham University - http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/328/ [accessed 28/01/2019]
An account of the boundary survey can be found at:
- E.R.L. Peake, 'Northern Rhodesia: Belgian Congo Boundary', The Geographical Journal, 83 (1934), 263-77 and map after p.352