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
Publication Type
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Organization
- 524
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This map of Robben Island shows streets, Varney's Fort, Edmund's Pool, the lighthouse, Ladies' Rock, the slaughter house, Irish town, the boat house, restaurant, convict station, nurses' home, buildings housing …
Map showing Hassi Inifel, a fort located in Ouargla, Algeria, and territorial and district boundaries, with place names, tracks and roads, water sources, dunes, rivers, saltflats and rock, fortresses, post …
A map of Southern Rhodesia native reserves, with rivers, place names and railway lines. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 25 miles.
Map showing the workings of the Indwe Mine, with shafts, the engine house, magazine, hospital and compound. Relief is shown by hachures. Scale 1 7/8 inch to 500 feet. Scale …
A hydrographic map of Table Bay Foreshore showing various survey lines and fathom contours from 1846 to 1902. Places on the map are Fort Knokke, Craig's Battery and the Salt …
Map showing boundaries and names of farms in Botswana, with roads and rivers. No scale given.
A map showing proposed railway lines from Malmesbury through Piquetberg to Clanwilliam, with roads, rivers, place names and relief shown by shading. Some colour. Scale 3/8 inch to 1 mile.
A map with the coastline, rivers, place names, relief represented by hachures, showing the proposed railway line. Some colour. No scale given.
Map showing region around Luanda in Angola and Atlantic Coast, and international, intercolonial, provincial, district boundaries, with land aerodromes, landing grounds, marine lights, railways with gauge measurements, under construction and …
Map of Robertson area showing typhoid fever cases along the De Hoop River, with the Willem Nel, Kleur Klooe and Breede Rivers. Some colour. No scale given.