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 1935
Map showing major roads and tracks in eastern French Equatorial Africa, including Chad, the Central African Republic and French Cameroon, and parts of Libya, Niger, and the Western Sudan, with …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1935
Map of the Erg Chech desert in the Algerian Sahara showing Ouahila, Mcherrah, Azlef and Adrar, water sources and flow direction. Relief is shown by form lines and hachures. 4th …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1935
Map showing the northern Chad City of Faya-Largeau with plateau names, dune names, depression names, place names, native villages, railways under construction, other tracks and explorers routes, non-perennial rivers, ground …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1935
Map showing water sources in the Sahara desert regions of Libya, and part of Chad. Relief shown by contours, form lines and hachures. 3rd edition. Colour. Scale 1:1000.000.
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1935
Map showing Port-Étienne in Mauritania as well part of the Spanish Sahara, with lakes, rivers, dunes roads, demarcated boundaries, place names. Colour. Relief shown by form lines, hachures and shading. …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1935
Map showing Taoudenni, a remote salt mining centre in the desert region of northern Mali, with names of ergs or sand seas. Relief shown by shading, form lines and hachures. …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1935
Map showing Atlantic coast of Spanish Sahara and its boundaries with Algeria and Morocco demarcated in pink. Places shown: Tiris and the Canary Islands. Shows water sources and some relief …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1935
Map showing Oudane, Tindouf, Mauritania, with relief shown by form lines, water sources, deserts and boundaries. Names of regions shown: Ouran, Makteir, Hammami. Colour. Scale 1:1000.000.
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1935
Map showing region of In Salah in Algeria. Waterways (wadis) and relief shown in contours, hachures and form lines. Areas named include Asedjrad, Irarrarene, Tefedest. 4th edition. Colour. Scale 1:1000.000.
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1935
Map showing Congo Forest, a broad belt of lowland tropical moist broadleaf forest, which extends across the basin of the Congo river and its tributaries in central Africa, and boundaries: …