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IDWO 1002-1005 (five maps):'Anglo-German boundary in East Equatorial Africa', prepared...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/228
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- FO 925/228
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1893
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Description (What the record is about)
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IDWO 1002-1005 (five maps):'Anglo-German boundary in East Equatorial Africa', prepared by the officers of the British Commission of 1892. (1) IDWO 1002b. Area now in Kenya and Tanzania. Sheet I. Shows boundary from the mouth of Umba River to Lake Jipe. With notes on construction of the map. Scale: 1:506,880. (2) Kilimanjaro and neighbourhood. Scale: 1:506,880. (3) Mouth of the Umba and Vanga. Scale: 1:126.720 (4) Triangulation chart. Scale: 1:1,013,760. (5) IDWO 1005. Kenya: Vanga. 'Gebiet der Umbamündung': sketch map of the vicinity of Vanga, showing the Anglo-German boundary line. Scale: 1:50,000. 'Communicated by Dr Peters July 12, 1893'. Published at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, August 1893, for the War Office.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:506880
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- Photozincographed, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 1189 (1) and entry 1395 (5)
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3816821/
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