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 1927

Map showing Fort Lallemand, in the Ouargla Department of Algeria, and military territory boundaries, neighbouring/adjoining boundaries, with automobile tracks, main and secondary roads, permanent water points, temporary water points, wells …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1927

Map showing the area around Constantine, northeastern Algeria, and national, military, district and town boundaries, with railways, tramways, tracks, major and secondary roads, camel paths, intermittent water sources, ravines, perennial …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1927

Map showing the Atlantic coast regions of French Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, part of the Ivory Coast and the French Sudan and international, provincial or departmental and district boundaries, with …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1927

Map showing Nosy-Ambositra, a town and commune in the Morombe district of Madagascar, with roads for carts/wagons, mule driver paths, tracks, wooden bridges, wells, springs, geodetic points, key junctions, tombs, …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1927

Map showing Mascara, a department in the north west of Algeria and national, military territory and district boundaries, with metalled roads normal routes, metalled roads narrow paths, tramways, under construction …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1926

Map of the Tshinsenda region in the Belgian Congo on the border of Rhodesia, showing colonial and sistrict boundaries,,with triangulation points of second and third orders and points determining the …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1926

Map showing the Bamako district in Mali, with place names, roads, railroads, railroad stations, telegraph and telephone lines, post offices with telegraphs or telephones, other tracks paths or explorers routes, …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1926

Map of Élisabethville region in Belgian Congo showing colonial and district boundaries, with triangulation points of second and third orders and points determining the plane tables, rivers, motor routes, old …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1926

Map showing Alger in the north of Algeria and the Islands of Ibiza and Mallorca, with single railways, narrow gauge railways, railways under construction. 1st and 2nd class roads for …


UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1926

Map of Tshinsenda region in Belgian Congo, showing soil types of the land surface, with rivers. Colour. Scale 1 : 200.000.