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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South Africa South Africa
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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.
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C.G.R. Flying surveys for proposed railways: Port Elizabeth-Avontuur, 1896, to accompany Mr. A. H. Haigh's report dated 16th April 1896

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1896

Map showing railway line from Avontuur to Port Elizabeth, with rivers, roads and small place names. Some colour. Scale 1 cm to 1 mile. Inset: Rough sketch plan, scale 300 …

Plan of Beaufort West showing the position of houses invaded by typhus fever in 1896

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1896

Street map of Beaufort West showing typhoid fever cases, street names, rivers, cemeteries and the hospital. Scale 2 1/2 inches to 100 Cape roods.

C.G.R. flying survey : Graaff Reinet Middelburg Road, 1896

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1896

Map showing proposed railway line from Graaff Reinet, past Middelburg, to meet with the existing railway at Middelburg Road station, with farms, roads and rivers. Some colour. Scale about 3/8 …

C.G.R. Caledon surveys, sheet1, 1896

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1896

Map showing the proposed extension of the railway from Somerset West, through the Hottentots Holland Mountains and the Houw Hoek Mountains, to Caledon, with rivers, outspans, roads, boundaries, place names …

C.G.R. Flying survey : Fort Beaufort-King Williams Town, 1896

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1896

Map showing proposed railway line from Fort Beaufort to King William's Town, passing Alice, Fort Hare, Ann Shaw village and Dikidikana and connecting with the existing railway from East London, …

Cape Colony 1896 : adapted from Meteorological Commission's Report, 1886

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1896

Map of average rainfall imposed on administrative map, with district and division boundaries, seats of magistracy and railway lines. Chiefly colour. Scale 7/8 inch to 50 miles.

Cape Colony 1896 : adapted from Meteorological Commission's Report, 1886

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1896

Map of average rainfall imposed on administrative map, with district and division boundaries, seats of magistracy and railway lines. Chiefly colour. Scale 7/8 inch to 50 miles.

Survey of Indwe to Natal border

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1896

A map showing existing railways and the proposed Indwe-Imvani line through Transkeian Territories. Map shows place names and rivers with relief indicated by hachures. Some colour. No scale given

C.G.R. flying survey : Oudtshoorn, Klipplaat, 1896

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1896

Map showing railway line from Oudtshoorn, through Willowmore, to Klipplaats, with rivers, roads and small place names. Some colour. Scale 1 cm to 10 miles

Map to accompany General Manager's report for the year 1895

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1895

Map showing railways in the Cape Colony through to British Bechuanaland, through the Orange Free State into the South African Republic. Shows territorial boundaries and place names. Some colour. Scale …