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.


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UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1931

Map showing Sakoa, a region of southwestern Madagascar, with unpaved roads, roads for carts/wagons, mule driver paths, footpaths, geodetic points, rated points, masonry houses, earthen houses, churches, tombs, large villages, …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1931

Map of the region surrounding Sousse in Tunisia, on the Hammamet Gulf of the Mediterrenean Sea, showing state, department, district and town boundaries, with magnetic declination, long distance roads, communication …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1931

Map of the region surrounding Medjez-el-Bab in northern Tunisia, and state, administrative, district and town boundaries, with magnetic declination, long distance roads, communication routes, local highways, irregularly maintained dirt roads, …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1931

Map of the region surrounding Siliana in northern Tunisia, showing state, administrative, district and communal boundaries, with magnetic declination, long distance roads, communication routes, local highways, irregularly maintained dirt roads, …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1931

Map of Metine on the Mediterranean coast of Tunisia, showing state, administrative, district and town boundaries, with magnetic declination, long distance roads, communication routes, local highways, irregularly maintained dirt roads, …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1931

Map showing Sakamena, a village near Betroka in the region of Anosy in Madagascar, with unpaved roads, roads for carts/wagons, roads, mule driver paths, named geodetic points,key junctions, masonry houses, …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1931

Map of the region surrounding Oued-Zarga in northern Tunisia including Testour, and state, administrative, district and town boundaries, with magnetic declination, long distance roads, communication routes, local highways, irregularly maintained …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1931

Map of the region surrounding Djebibina, in Kairouan governorate, northern Tunisia, showing state, administrative, district and communal boundaries, with magnetic declination, long distance roads, communication routes, local highways, irregularly maintained …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1931

Map showing Bekopaka, a town and commune in western Madagascar, with unpaved roads, mule driver paths, tracks, wooden bridges, geodetic signals, key junctions, earthen houses, large villages, villages, high bush, …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1931

Map showing Hammamet city and the Gulf of Hammamet, and state, administrative, district and communal boundaries, with magnetic declination, long distance roads, communication routes, local highways, irregularly maintained dirt roads, …