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2 items extracted from CO 179/170. (1) 'Sketch Map shewing Boundary Lines of Zululand...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/957
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This record is about the 2 items extracted from CO 179/170. (1) 'Sketch Map shewing Boundary Lines of Zululand... dating from 1887 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)
- MPG 1/957
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1887
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items extracted from CO 179/170. (1) 'Sketch Map shewing Boundary Lines of Zululand [now Kwazulu] and of New Republic and line marked off by Boundary Commission of 1886-1887'. Scale: 3 inches to 16 miles (incorrectly stated on map to be 1:180,080; a scale of 1:337920 has been pencilled on the map). Compass indicator. Signed by A C McKean, Major, Inniskilling Dragoons, Surveyor to Commission, February 1887. The area shown corresponds to parts of present-day Kwazulu/Natal and Free State, South Africa. (2) 'Map to accompany Report and Diagrams of Boundary Commission of 1886-87'. Shows the boundary, and stone and turf beacons. Scale: 1:253,440. Compass indicator. Signed by A C McKean, Major, Inniskilling Dragoons, January 1887. The map was based on the triangulation of the Intelligence Department map of Zululand (revised July 1885) and covers Kwazulu, now part of Kwazulu/Natal, South Africa. (1) 63 cm x 78 cm; (2) 69 cm x 40 cm.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The items are bound in the portfolio in the order 2,1.
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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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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 69 cm x 40 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), entries 3037, 3038. The item described at 3037 is item 1; 3038 is item 2. The catalogue entries erroneously give 3037 as item 2 and 3038 as item 1.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3981646/
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2 items extracted from CO 179/170. (1) 'Sketch Map shewing Boundary Lines of Zululand...
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