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 1928

Map of the region surrounding Ghardimaou in northwestern Tunisa, showing the Medjerda River, and state, administrative, district and town boundaries, with magnetic declination, long distance roads, communication routes, local highways, …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1928

Map showing the poisition of Sfax, the major cities, place names, roads network and the rivers of Tunisia. Relief shown by shading. Demarcated boundaries highlighted in pink. Colour. Scale1:1,000,000


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1928

Map showing Philippeville, now Skikda, a city in north-eastern Algeria and a port on the Gulf of Stora, and state, department, district and town boundaries, national highways, department roads, irregularly …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1928

Map showing the town of Bugeaud near the Edough Mountains in the Annaba region of Algeria, and state, department, district and town boundaries, national highways, department roads, irregularly maintained carriage …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1928

Map showing Ihotry, a closed saline lake in the semi-arid southwestern part of Madagascar in the region of Atsimo-Andrefana, and intercolonial/mandate boundaries, with roads for carts/wagons, mule driver paths, tracks, …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1928

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


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1928

Aeronautical map showing aerodromes, seaplane stations, places for emergency landings, hangars for aiplanes and airships, establishments for inflating balloons, mooring masts, aeronautical markers, aerial and marine lighthouses, international borders, telegraph …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1928

Geological map of Tshinsenda region in Belgian Congo showing different soil and rock formations, direction and dip of layers, observable shades of unified geological boundaries, probable shades of interrupted geological …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1928

Map showing the Filfila Mountains in the Constantine Department of Algeria on the north-eastern Mediterranean coast, and state, department, district and town boundaries, national highways, department roads, irregularly maintained carriage …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1928

Map showing Cap de Fer in Skikda Province, north-eastern Algeria, and state, department, district and town boundaries, national highways, department roads, irregularly maintained carriage roads, paths, logging roads and mule …