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 1943
Map of east Africa showing the territories of the tribes of Sudan, Uganda, Abyssinia, Kenya, Somalia and British Somaliland, extending into Ruanda and Urundi, with capitals of territories, principal towns, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1943
Map showing Kenya, Uganda and part of Tanzania, with their boundaries in Lake Victoria. The map shows international, intercolonial, provincial, and district boundaries, with railways with gauge measurements, under construction …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1943
Map of Bulawayo and surrounding areas, showing international, district and provincial boundaries, with railways, roads and tracks, towns and administrative posts, villages, mission stations and tribal areas, rivers and other …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1943
Map of the Indian Ocean coast of Somaliland from El Dere to Mogadishu and Kismayu, showing the Juba River from Lugh Ferrande to Giumbo, with territorial boundaries, railways, roads, tracks, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1943
Map of the town of Sailsbury, now Harare, and the surrounding area in Southern Rhodesia, with towns, villages, outstations and localities, suburbs, railways, native reserve boundaries, British South Africa Police …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1943
Map showing the Gulf of Guinea, including the areas called Côte d'Ivoire, Gold Coast, Slave Coast and Dahomey, and international, intercolonial, provincial, and district boundaries, with railways with gauge measurements, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1943
Map showing Natal, a province in South Africa, and Lesotho, and international, intercolonial, provincial and dsitrict boundaries, with railways, roads, telegraphs or telephones, provinces, districts, localities, mountainranges, peaks, valleys, capes, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1943
Map showing the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, and international, intercolonial, provincial, district boundaries, with place names, railways, under construction, projected, roads suitable for motor …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1943
Map showing a section of the African Great Lake Tanganyika, and surrounding regions of Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, and international, intercolonial boundaries, with towns of 1st, 2nd importance, minor towns, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1943
Map showing the Upper Juba River in southern Somalia on the Indian Ocean coast and the Upper Juba area including Shibeli and Lower Shibeli, place names along the coast including …