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TRIG/12
- Record Id:
- 040-003441308
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003440772
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075666077.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- TRIG/12
- Title:
- Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Triangulation. Horizontal and Vertical Observation Books (field copies) and Index of Observation Books.
- Scope & Content:
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30 observation books (numbered 1 to 30).
Book 1 also contains an additional 18 loose pages of observations (16 x 23cm) and 1 page of 'Beacon Dimensions' (33 x 21cm, recto and verso).
Office copies of books 1 to 20 are filed at TRIG/25.
1 index book titled 'Index of Observation Books Showing Contents'.
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
040-003441308 - Is part of:
- TRIG : War Office/Ministry of Defence Trigonometrical/Geodetic Library Material
TRIG/12 : Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Triangulation. Horizontal and Vertical Observation Books… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003440772[0012]/040-003441308
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: TRIG
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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31 volumes and 19 pages
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1927
- End Date:
- 1930
- Date Range:
- 1927-1930
- Era:
- CE
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 23.9000,-13.4000,29.8200,-10.8800
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 23°54’0”-E 29°49’12”/S 10°52’48”-S 13°24’0”
- Orientation:
- North
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Printed, with manuscript additions in coloured ink and pencil; 33 x 21cmcm and 16 x 23cm
- Former External References:
- DS 300 E
DS 305 D
DS 305 D(1) - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- The Horizontal and Vertical Angle observation books were referenced DS 305 D; the Index of Observation Books bears the former references DS 305D(1) and DS 300E.
- Names:
- Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933, 1927-1933
- Places:
- Belgian Congo, Central Africa
Northern Rhodesia, Africa
River Congo, Africa
River Zambesi, East 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