The University of Cape Town African Maps Collection
University of Cape Town
Special Collections has a significant map collection, covering the whole African continent, and including rare and valuable items as well as a variety of atlases. Much of the collection was assembled by the first professor of Geography at UCT, Professor William Talbot.
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UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1940
Map showing the Dakhla oasis region in Egypt and international boundaries, with district towns, important villages, roads, explorer's routes, paths or tracks, sand seas, crested dunes, perennial water sources, artesian …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1940
Map of Chad showing radio stations, airports, landing fields, harbours, mines, lighthouses, channels, waterfalls, rivers, swamps, wells, sandy areas, seaports, height in meters, railways, highways, international, colonial, provincial and district …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1940
Map of North Togo and surrounding regions, showing roads, railways, national borders, colonial, provincial and district borders, towns, posts and telegraphs, airports, landing fields, mines, lighthouses, harbours, water channels, sand, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1940
Map of Harrar, near the borders of the Somaliland Protectorate and surrounding areas including Hargeisa, Heleya, the Ain Valley and Doih Plain, showing international, provincial and district boundaries, with railways, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1940
Map showing Agades In Niger, with international, intercolonial, provincial and district borders. It also shows towns, contours, swamps, rivers with falls, sandy deserts, canals, lakes salt lakes, low ground liable …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1940
Map showing the Atlantic coast region of northwestern Africa including Guinée, Sierra Leone and Liberia and international, undemarcated, intercolonial, provincial boundaries, frontier districts, with towns of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1940
Map showing the Somaliland Protectorate, and part of Italian Somalia, French des Somalis and Abyssinia, and international, intercolonial, provincial, district boundaries, with place names, railways, under construction, projected, roads suitable …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1940
Map showing Dakar and other regions of Senegal, and The Gambia, with towns of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th importance, native villages, railways, railways stations, roads, telegraph and telephone lines, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1939
Map with hypsometric tints showing region of Libyan Desert on the border of Egypt and Libya,and international, provincial, district boundaries, with oases, railways with gauges, under construction and projected, roads …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1939
Map showing Mopti and surrounds of the inner Niger Delta region of Mali, and state boundaries, colonial territories, provincial, district and subdivision boundaries, with railways, roads, tracks, paths, streets with …