The University of Cape Town African Maps Collection

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.


Flag this collection
Type
Rights
Property of the University of Cape Town Libraries. For permission to reproduce or quote, please contact the Special Collections of the University of Cape Town Libraries.

Publication Type

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949

Map of the Belgian Congo and the borders and parts of Angola, Tanganyika, Rhodesia, French Equitorial Africa and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, with routes of general interest, routes of local interest, train …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949

Map showing the African territories of Ruanda and Urundi which came under Belgian control after they were seized from Germandy during WWI, and intercolonial or mandate boundaries, state boundaries, district …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949

Map of Alula and surrounding areas on the tip of the Horn of Africa along the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean coast, showing territorial boundaries, with railways, principal …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949

Map showing the distribution of the indigenous population of the African territories of Ruanda and Urundi which came under Belgian control after they were seized from Germandy during WWI, andthe …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949

Map showing the railway network, road network, isolated telegraph lines, submarine cables, lighthouse. Major civil airports, Major civil flying boat alighting areas, wells, waterholes and springs. Also shows major towns …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949

Topocadastral map showing gold mining company holdings in the areas of Randfontein, Roodepoort, Johannesburg, Germiston, Boksburg, Heidelburg, Potchefstroom, Klerksdrop, Vredefort, Heilbron, Frankfort, Lindley, Bethlehem, Senekal, Kroonstad, Winburg, Ventersburg and Bothaville. …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1948

United States Army Air Forces aeronautical chart map showing Cape Kanzira, state and international boundaries and the border of British Somaliland and Ethiopia, with landplane facilities, seaplane facilities, lighting facilities, …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1947

Map of Kenya showing parts of Somaliland, Uganda and Tanganyika and territorial boundaries, and Lake Victoria, with railways, roads, tracks,principal towns, centres and administrative posts, villages, settlements, missions, tribal or …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1946

Map of Uganda and surrounding region including Lake Victoria, showing territorial boundaries, with railways, roads, tracks, principal towns, centres and administrative posts, villages, settlements, missions, tribal or area names, localities, …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1946

Geological map of Southern Rhodesia showing geological formations and economic minerals, with international, district, native reserve and game reserve boundaries, towns and villages, outstations and localities, railways, British South African …