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 1942
Map showing Kandi, a town in the Alibori Department of eastern Benin, and international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial, district and subdivision boundaries, with railways with metered tracks, roads and ways …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing Port Harcourt in Nigeria, on the Bonny River leading in to the Bay of Biafra, with national, colonial, provincial and district boundaries, the coastline, rivers, towns, railways, posts …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing Egypt, a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia, and surrounding regions, and international, intercolonial, provincial, district boundarioes, with place names, railways, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing a province in the north of South Africa which was named Transvaal from 1910 until the end of 1994, and international, intercolonial, provincial, district boundaries, with place names, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing the Nigerian port of Lagos and the Bay of Benin, and international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, with dual carriage-railways, single carriage railways: standard gauge, narrow …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing the railways, roads, road motor services, projected road motor services and road motor services operated by C.F.M. Administration. Two insets showing places. Some colour. 1:2,000,000
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing Algeria, a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa on the Mediterranean coast, and international, international undemarcated, intercolonial, provincial, frontier district boundaries, with towns of 1st, 2nd, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing region around Luanda in Angola and the Atlantic Coast, and international, intercolonial, provincial and district boundaries, with railways with gauge measurements, under construction and projected, roads suitable for …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing Benguela, a city in western Angola, and northern South West 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 1942
Map with hypsometric tints shows the area around Sfax, a Mediterrenean port in the south-east of Tunisia, using the Southern Zone Layer System for altitudes, with boundaries, roads, wells, ruins, …