The University of Cape Town African Maps Collection

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 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, …