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 Wādi Halfa in then Ango-Egyption Sudan, now in the Northern state of Sudan, and part of Egypt, with railways, main roads, secondary roads, paths or tracks, explorers' routes, international …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map with hypsometric tints shows the area around Marrakech, in Morocco, using the Southern Zone Layer System for altitudes, with railways, roads, place names. Relief shown by form lines, heights …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map with hypsometric tints shows the area around Oran, on the northwestern Mediterrenean coast of Algeria, using the Southern Zone Layer System for altitudes, with railways, roads, place names. Relief …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map of Kenya, showing parts of the Uganda Protectorate and Italian Somalia, including Lake Victoria, and international, provincial and district boundaries, with railways, roads and tracks, telephone or telegraph lines, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing Ouadane, a small town in the desert region of central Mauritania, with towns of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th importance, native villages, boundaries international, international undemarcated, intercolonial or …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map of Tabora, East Africa, including Lake Tanganyika, and international boundaries, with railways, roads, paths or tracks, rivers and salt marshes, telegraphs, telegraph or telephone offices, post offices, wireless telegraph …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map of the KidalRegion in Mali, showing international, intercolonial, provincial and district borders. It also shows towns, contours, swamps, rivers with falls, sandy deserts, canals, lakes salt lakes, low ground …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing Enugu, the capital of the Nigerian State Enugu, and international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, with dual carriage-railways, single carriage railways: standard gauge, narrow gauge, metered …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map with hypsometric tints shows the area around Casablanca, the port city in western Morocco, using the Southern Zone Layer System for altitudes, with boundaries, roads, wells, fortified places and …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1942
Map showing Morocco, parts of adjacent countries, the Atlantic Ocean with Madeira and the Canary Islands, and international boundaries, intercolonial boundaries, provincial boundaries, frontier district boundaries, with towns of 1st …
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, …
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 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 …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Kindia, the third largest city in Guinea, and international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, with place names, dual carriage-railways, single carriage railways: standard gauge, narrow gauge, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Bobo Dioulassoa, the second largest city in Burkina Faso, and international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial,district and subdivision boundaries, with dual carriage-railways, single carriage railways: standard gauge, narrow gauge, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
A map of Nuakschott, in Mauritania, showing national, colonial, provincial, district and subdivision boundaries, with roads and nature walks, paths and other routes, place names, telegraph lines, rivers, waterholes, wells, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing the north-western coastal region of Africa covering French West Africa and the Gulf of Guinea and Including parts of Mauritania, Sudan, Portuguese Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Tahua in Niger, plus surrounding districts, with national, colonial, provincial, district and subdivision boundaries, villages and towns, nature walks, paths, tracks, telegraph lines, railways, salt marsh, airports, airfields …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Bolama, the closest of the Bijagós islands to the mainland of Guinea-Bissau, and place names, international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, with dual carriage-railways, single carriage …
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 showing San in the Sudanese region of French West Africa and state, colonial, provincial, district and subdivision boundaries, with railways, roads tracks, alternative routes, paths, streets with telegraph lines, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
A map of Kidal, in Mali, showing colonial and provincial boundaries,with desert trail roads, routes of explorers, villages and towns, flight and landing fields, astronomical points, wells, rivers, water sources, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Njame or Niamey within the Njame district in Niger, plus surrounding districts, with national, colonial, provincial, district and subdivision boundaries, villages and towns, nature walks, paths, tracks, telegraph …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Conakry and Sierra Leone, and international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries,with place names, railways with 1 metre tracks, railways under construction or planned, roads and ways …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing the western Mali town and urban commune of Kita, and international, international undemarcated, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, with Dakar, the capital of the colony, and …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing the south-central Mauritanian city of Kiffa and part of the Sudan, and international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, border subdivisions, with roads and ways for motor …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Tidjikja, the capital of the Tagant region in central Mauritania, international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and district boundaries, with roads and ways for motor traffic, heavy duty roads, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Turin, and state, colonial, district and subdivision boundaries, with roads and ways for motor traffic, heavy duty roads, light duty roads, other tracks or paths, post offices and …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Conakry, Guinea and a part of Sierra Leone, with towns, native villages, international boundaries highlighted in pink, undemarcated boundaries, intercolonial, provincial and district boundaries, rivers with falls, canals, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Hombori in Mali, plus surrounding districts, with national, colonial, provincial, district and subdivision boundaries, villages and towns, nature walks, paths, tracks, telegraph lines, railways, salt marsh, airports, airfields …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Ansongo, a rural commune and small town in the Gao region of eastern Mali alongside the Niger river, and international, intercolonial or mandate, provincial, district and subdivision boundaries, …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing In-Azaoua, a town in northern-central Niger, with towns of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th importance, native villages, boundaries international, international undemarcated, intercolonial or mandate, provincial, district, rivers with …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Port - Etienne, the second largest city in Mauritania with towns of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th importance, native villages, international, international undemarcated, intercolonial or mandate, provincial and …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1941
Map showing Abidjan region in Ivory Coast, including Agboville, Lakota and Aboisso and the Atlantic coast, and state boundaries, colonial territories, provincial, district and subdivision boundaries, with railway, roads, tracks, …