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TRIG/42
- Record Id:
- 040-003450848
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003440772
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100076941107.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- TRIG/42
- Title:
- Rhodesia-Angola Boundary Commission 1913-1914. Reports & Documents. Astronomical, Triangulation and Other Observations and Computations.
- Scope & Content:
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Comprises the following. Original envelopes and folders have been retained.
2 bound volumes of observations and computations. [Date start taken from document in Astronomical Observation Book.] (DS 305 B(3))
'Anglo Portuguese Boundary Commission (Rhodesia-Angola). 1913.' Introduction and coordinate lists; and List of Azimuth, Reverse Azimuths and Lengths of Sides. Typescripts. 8 pages, 7 pages, 1 folder and 1 envelope. (Folio-Z4-2, Box-FR-Z4-1; CCR/86/Z)
'Report of the Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Commission. Angola and N[orth].W[est]. Rhodesia. 1913-14.' Original typescript dated 1914, 28 pages (plus an inserted folio) with manuscript additions in coloured ink and pencil. Also photographic part copy, 18 pages. Also 'Anglo Portuguese Boundary Commission (Rhodesia-Angola). 1913.' Introduction and coordinate lists. Carbon copy of typescript. 8 pages. Also 1 envelope.
Photographic copy of 'Rhodesia. Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Commission (Rhodesia-Angola) 1913. Summary of Triangulation with Co-ordinates List.' 15 pages and 1 envelope. (DS 305 F(1))
Used in the production of Geographical Section, General Staff No. 2964, Rhodesia - Angola Boundary Demarcation Map, scale 1:500,000 dated 1915, filed at Maps MOD GSGS 2964. The triangulation diagram was published as Geographical Section, General Staff No. 3808, Triangulation Diagram of the Anglo-Portuguese (Rhodesia-Angola) Boundary Commission 1913-1914, scale 1:500,000 dated 1927 and filed at Maps 66126.(1.) and Maps MOD GSGS 3808.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003440772
040-003450848 - Is part of:
- TRIG : War Office/Ministry of Defence Trigonometrical/Geodetic Library Material
TRIG/42 : Rhodesia-Angola Boundary Commission 1913-1914. Reports & Documents. Astronomical, Triangulation and Other Observations and… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003440772[0042]/040-003450848
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: TRIG
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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2 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1912
- End Date:
- 1914
- Date Range:
- 1912-1914
- Era:
- CE
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 21.7500,-17.7500, 24.5833,-10.8333
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 21°45’0”-E 24°35’0”/S 10°50’0”-S 17°45’0”
- Orientation:
- North
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Printed, with manuscript additions in coloured ink, pencil and crayon; 37 x 29cm or smaller
- Former External References:
- CCR/86/Z
DS 300 D
DS 305 B(1)
DS 305 B(3)
Folio-Z4-2, Box-FR-Z4-1 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Commission (Rhodesia-Angola) 1913-1914, 1913-1914
- Places:
- Angola, Africa
Northern Rhodesia, Africa - Related Material:
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An account of the historical delimitation of the Northern Rhodesia/Zambia-Angola boundary can be found at:
- International Boundary Study No. 119. Angola-Zambian Boundary (Washington D.C.: Office of the Geographer, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 1972).
A brief outline of the context of the survey and its relation to neighbouring boundary surveys is given in:
- E.A. Steel, 'Zambezi-Congo Watershed', The Geographical Journal, 50 (1917), 180-181.