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 of the Salisbury District of Southern Rhodesia, with Salisbury town and suburbs, farms, farm boundaries fenced, paddock fences, gates, railways, roads, tracks and footpaths, trigonometrical stations, buildings, British South …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map with hypsometric tints shows the area around Biskra, an inland oasis town in the Algerian Sahara, using the Southern Zone Layer System for altitudes, with boundaries, roads, springs, wells, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing Cufra, an oasis region in Libya, with 3rd and 4th class towns, motor and reconaissance tracks,rivers, ruins, trigonometrical points, shrines, ruins, tombs, drinking wells, cisterns, wadis, vegetation and …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map with hypsometric tints showing the area around Constantine, north eastern Algeria, using the Southern Zone Layer System for altitudes, with railways, roads, place names. Relief shown by form lines, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing water sources in the Sahara within Chad and Libya, with 4th class towns, motor tracks, motor reconnaissance routes, doubtful tracks, trigonometrical points, wells, wadis, sand seas, international boundaries, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing Forcados in the Delta region of Nigeria on the Bay of Benin, and international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, with dual carriage-railways, single carriage railways: standard …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Rhadamès, in the Gharyān Province of Libya, part of Tunisia, and international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, with metalled roads normal routes, metalled roads, narrow paths, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
A map of Agades, in Niger, showing district boundaries, with desert trail routes, tracks, paths, routes of explorers, villages and towns, flight and landing fields, astronomical points, radio stations, rivers, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map of Zaria Province, Nigeria, and surrounding regions, showing railways, metalled roads, all weather motor roads, seasonal roads, other tracks, paths or explorers routes, telegraph and telephone lines, post offices …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map of Timbuktu in Mali, showing national, colonial, district and subdivision boundaries, with roads, rivers,waterholes, swamps, flooded areas, sand dunes, salt marsh, mountains, villages, cemeteries and graves, ruins, post offices …