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1 item (originally bound with papers on the Fashoda Incident) extracted from FO 78/5051....
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/213
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This record is about the 1 item (originally bound with papers on the Fashoda Incident) extracted from FO 78/5051.... dating from 1898 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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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MPK 1/213
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1898
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (originally bound with papers on the Fashoda Incident) extracted from FO 78/5051. Central Africa. 'General Map of the Nile Valley from Berber to Victoria Nyanza': showing areas in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), Kenya, French Equatorial Africa (the part shown is now in the Central African Republic), Sudan and Uganda; marking tribal regions, towns, rivers, lakes, mountains and frontiers. Compiled at the Intelligence Division, War Office; published by Edward Stanford. Inset: 'Plan of Meshra Er Rek' taken from Dr W Junker, Travels in Africa 1879-83, p49. MS additions.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Map designation (Identifying numbers or names given to printed maps by their publishers)
- IDWO 1319
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 64 cm x 92 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:2500000
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- 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 108
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980234/
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Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the Foreign Office
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