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Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed and Meridian...

Catalogue reference: TRIG/35

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TRIG/35
Title
Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed and Meridian sections. Protocols, Agreements and Details of the Boundary and Pillars.
Date
? 1936
Description

Photographic copies of documents dated 1927-1934 relating to the Northern Rhodesia-Belgian Congo boundary survey (Congo-Zambesi and Mpanta Meridian sections). Comprises:. Tied bundle of 7 documents: Protocols, Agreements and Details of the Boundary and Pillars (total 380 pages); Envelope containing 3 sets of tied pages: Protocols (total 75 pages); Used in the compilation of Geographical Section, General Staff No. 4044, 7 sheets at scale 1:250,000 dated 1941 filed at Maps X.6262.

Related material

The legal basis of the Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-33 can be found at:. Brownlie, Ian, African Boundaries (Luton: Hurst, 1979), pp.708-12. ; An overview and analysis of the Commission's work can be found at:. Donaldson, John, Wade, Marking Territory: Demarcation of the DRC-Zambia Boundary from 1894 to the Present Day. Doctoral thesis, Durham University - http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/328/ [accessed 28/01/2019]. ; An account of the boundary survey can be found at:. E.R.L. Peake, 'Northern Rhodesia: Belgian Congo Boundary', The Geographical Journal, 83 (1934), 263-77 and map after p.352

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British Library, Map Library
Former department reference
H2 A10
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Language
English
Creator(s)
Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933, 1927-1933
Physical description
455 pages.
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? Bromides; 34 x 21cm
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Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed and Meridian sections. Protocols, Agreements and Details of the Boundary and Pillars.