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1 item (sent to the Foreign Office by the Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society,...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/471
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This record is about the 1 item (sent to the Foreign Office by the Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society,... dating from [1856] 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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- [1856]
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1 item (sent to the Foreign Office by the Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, 8 December 1856) extracted from FO 2/37 (folio 62). South-central Africa. Sketch map of the area between 25°E and 36°E, and between 11°S and 19°S, showing the courses of the rivers Zambezi, Luangwa, Kafue and Shire, 'Lake Maravi' (Lake Nyasa); mountain ranges, tribal areas, and supposed coalfields, etc; (showing areas now in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe; some inaccuracies of location. Originally described as: 'Dr. Livingstone's last tracing'.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- 37 cm x 46 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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