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'The Territories of the Nyassa Company. Constituted by Royal Charter. Sketch map...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/96
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This record is about the 'The Territories of the Nyassa Company. Constituted by Royal Charter. Sketch map... dating from 1899 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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MPK 1/96
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Date (When the record was created)
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1899
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Description (What the record is about)
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'The Territories of the Nyassa Company. Constituted by Royal Charter. Sketch map compiled from all available sources'. Map showing rivers, high land, notes on topography, place names, boundaries; and proposed railway from Pemba Bay to Lake Nyassa. Scale: 6.7 inches to 80 miles. Printed by E Stanford, London, August 1899. Coloured MS additions show the route of an expedition between Fort Maguire and Quissanga, place names and topographical information.
This map was found loose in the PRO in 1949 and was presumed at that time to have become detached from Sir Hugh MacDonell's despatch of 12 October 1899 in FO 2/667. The map actually enclosed with that despatch is now MPK 1/488. The true original provenance of MPK 1/96 is unknown.
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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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69 cm x 98 cm
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Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 1878
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980117/
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MPK 1
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Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the Foreign Office
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