Catalogue description 2 items extracted from WO 181/201 . 'Africa 1:2,000,000': Two maps formed as follows:...

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Details of MPH 1/1203
Reference: MPH 1/1203
Description:

2 items extracted from WO 181/201. 'Africa 1:2,000,000': Two maps formed as follows: (1) parts of ['Upper Congo' and 'Zanzibar'] joined, together covering the area around Lake Mweru (now in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo). (2) 'Rhodesia': a complete sheet, covering the area between Munhango (now in Angola), Lake Bangweulu (now in Zambia), Gwelo (now Gweru, Zimbabwe) and Grootfontein (now in Namibia). Reference tables to both items; indexes to boundaries, adjoining sheets, levels of accuracy and authorities used in compiling the map appear on item (2). Compiled, drawn and originally published by the War Office 1919; second edition heliographed by the Ordnance Survey and published by the War Office: (1) 1927, (2) 1933. MS additions, coloured, to both items showing suggested transfers of land between the Belgian Congo and [British-controlled] Northern Rhodesia (1) between Lake Mweru and Lake Mweru Wantipa; (2) to the east of Ndola.

Date: 1927-1933
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Map designation: GSGS 2871
Map scale: 1:2000000
Physical condition: Heliographed, coloured
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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