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 1959
A street map of Salisbury showing suburbs and streets, with rivers, banks, government buildings, municipal buildings, parks, churches, police stations, post offices, cinemas, hospitals, hotels, shopping centres, public swimming baths, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1957
Street map of Bulawayo showing suburbs, African and Coloured villages and African locations, roads, banks, churches, cineamas, general public buildings, government buildings, hospitals, hotels, municipal buildings, police stations, post offices …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1957
Map showing main roads in Uganda, Kenya, Belgian Congo, Angola, Tanganyika, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Mozambique, Bechuanaland Protectorate, South-West Africa and South Africa and frontiers, with place names, mileages, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1957
Map of Southern Rhodesia showing international, territorial, provincial, district, native reserve, native purchase area, special native area, forest area or reserve, game reserve and national park boundaries, towns, outstations, native …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1956
Street map of Salisbury showing suburbs, roads, schools, police stations, post offices, government buildings, shopping centres, municipal buildings, banks, hospitals, town management offices, cinemas, parks, public gardens, golf courses, race …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1953
Map of Salisbury showing numbered postal districts and land lots, with suburbs, native reserves, quarries, water sources and catchment areas, police camps, police stations, parks, schools, government experiment stations, the …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1950
Map of Bulawyo showing Riverside, Sunninghill, Hillcrest, Waterford Estate, Douglasdale suburbs and Matsheumhlope, with golf and racing courses, schools, the city hall, hospitals, parks, sports grounds, reservoirs, dams, rivers and …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1950
Map of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, showing Woodville Estate, Woodville North, Woodville South, Queensdale, Queen's Park, Orange Grove, Marvel, Kumalo, Bulawayo North, Glengarry Estates, suburbs, Sauers Township and Umguzu agricultural lots, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949
Map showing the official roads of the African territories of Ruanda and Urundi which came under Belgian control after they were seized from Germany during WWI, and main roads of …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949
Map of the Belgian Congo and the borders and parts of Angola, Tanganyika, Rhodesia, French Equitorial Africa and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, with routes of general interest, routes of local interest, train …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949
Map showing the African territories of Ruanda and Urundi which came under Belgian control after they were seized from Germandy during WWI, and intercolonial or mandate boundaries, state boundaries, district …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949
Map of Alula and surrounding areas on the tip of the Horn of Africa along the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean coast, showing territorial boundaries, with railways, principal …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949
Map showing the distribution of the indigenous population of the African territories of Ruanda and Urundi which came under Belgian control after they were seized from Germandy during WWI, andthe …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949
Map showing Catholic mission stations in the African territories of Ruanda and Urundi which came under Belgian control after they were seized from Germandy during WWI, and state boundaries, intercolonial …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949
Map showing the railway network, road network, isolated telegraph lines, submarine cables, lighthouse. Major civil airports, Major civil flying boat alighting areas, wells, waterholes and springs. Also shows major towns …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1949
Topocadastral map showing gold mining company holdings in the areas of Randfontein, Roodepoort, Johannesburg, Germiston, Boksburg, Heidelburg, Potchefstroom, Klerksdrop, Vredefort, Heilbron, Frankfort, Lindley, Bethlehem, Senekal, Kroonstad, Winburg, Ventersburg and Bothaville. …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1948
United States Army Air Forces aeronautical chart map showing Cape Kanzira, state and international boundaries and the border of British Somaliland and Ethiopia, with landplane facilities, seaplane facilities, lighting facilities, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1947
Map of Kenya showing parts of Somaliland, Uganda and Tanganyika and territorial boundaries, and Lake Victoria, with railways, roads, tracks,principal towns, centres and administrative posts, villages, settlements, missions, tribal or …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1946
Map of Uganda and surrounding region including Lake Victoria, showing territorial boundaries, with railways, roads, tracks, principal towns, centres and administrative posts, villages, settlements, missions, tribal or area names, localities, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1946
Geological map of Southern Rhodesia showing geological formations and economic minerals, with international, district, native reserve and game reserve boundaries, towns and villages, outstations and localities, railways, British South African …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1946
Map of Tabora, Western Tanganyika,showing territorial boundaries,with railways, roads, tracks, principal towns, centres and administrative posts, villages, settlements, missions, tribal or area names, localities, post offices, post and telegraph offices, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1945
Aeronautical chart of the region surrounding Lake Victoria, showing parts of Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika, and state and international boundaries, with aeronautical symbols, airports, military fields, flight strips, emergency landing …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1945
United States Army Air Forces aeronautical chart map showing Lake Rudolf in Kenya with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia, and state and international boundaries with Italian Somaliland and …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1944
Map showing northern part of the Cape Province of the Union of South Africa, South West Africa and part of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, with towns and villages, roads, railways, rivers, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1944
United States Army Air Forces aeronautical chart map showing Lake Abaya in Ethiopia, and parts of Kenya and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and state and international boundaries, with landplane facilities, seaplane facilities, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1944
Map of the town of Gwelo, now Gweru, 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 1944
Map showing Indian Ocean coast of South Africa and parts of the Orange Free State, Natal and Cape of Good Hope Provinces, and Basutoland, with district boundaries, cities, towns and …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1944
United States Army Air Forces aeronautical chart map showing Lake Albert in central Africa, on the border between Uganda and the Belgian Congo, and state and international boundaries with Kenya …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1944
Map showing the Transvaal Province of the Union of South Africa, part of the Orange Free State Province, Swaziland, part of the Bechuanaland Protectorate and the borders with Rhodesia and …
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 Mozambique and adjoining countries, and international boundaries, intercolonial boundaries, provincial boundaries, district boundaries, with towns of 1st importance to 5th importance, railways, rivers, canals, marshes and swamps, plains …
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 …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1943
Map of east Africa, showing the territories of the tribes of Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Tanganyika, with capitals of territories, principal towns, localities or villages, rivers and railways. The map …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1943
Map showing Voi, the largest town in Taita-Taveta County in southern Kenya, andinter-territorialboundaries, with place names, railways, light railways, roads, principal, other, tracks suitable for motor traffic, footpaths, camel and …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1943
Map of Sa'idan region of Tunisia around Chott el Fedjadj salt pan, showing state, departments, district and community boundaries, with European administrative borders, railways, roads and tracks, telegraph lines, dams, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing Northern Rhodesia and parts of Southern Rhodesia, and international, intercolonial, provincial, district boundaries, with railways with gauge measurements, under construction and projected, roads suitable for motor traffic or …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map with hypsometric tints shows the area around Mascara, in north-western Algeria, using the Southern Zone Layer System for altitudes, with boundaries, roads, springs, wells, shrines, fortified places and other …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing Taoudenni, a remote salt mining centre in the desert region of northern Mali, with towns of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th importance, native villages, international, international undemarcated, intercolonial …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map of Mauritania showing the adjoining territory of the Spanish or Western Sahara, and international boundaries, intercolonial boundaries, provincial boundaries, frontier district boundaries, with towns of 1st importance to 5th …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map with hypsometric tints showing Alger and the Alger bay area in northern Algeria, using the Southern Zone Layer System for altitudes, with railways, roads, place names. Relief shown by …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map with hypsometric tints shows the area around Meknès, northern Morocco. tints, using the Southern Zone Layer System for altitudes, with boundaries, roads, springs, wells, fortified places and other place …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing Aldabra, the world's second largest coral atoll situated in the Aldabra Group of islands in the Indian Ocean that form part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, …