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'East Africa Protectorate [now Kenya]. Plan of Mombasa Island. Provisional': 2 copies...

Catalogue reference: MPGG 1/88/1-2

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This record is about the 'East Africa Protectorate [now Kenya]. Plan of Mombasa Island. Provisional': 2 copies... dating from 1913 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
MPGG 1/88/1-2
Date
1913
Description

'East Africa Protectorate [now Kenya]. Plan of Mombasa Island. Provisional': 2 copies of a map. (1) Showing government and railway land, land leased to private owners, and land in dispute. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 600 feet [1:7,200]. Compass star. MS additions, coloured, marking European, Asian and African areas; pencilled printing instructions for a smaller-scale printing, [presumably item 2]. (2) Revised version, incorporating the additions shown on item 1. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 1,200 feet [1:14,400]. Compass star. First proof copy, produced at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. Marked: 'CO No. 17', and stamped: 18 December 1913. Dimensions: (1) 96 cm x 79 cm; (2) 53 cm x 45 cm.

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical condition
Printed, coloured
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 1314-1315
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8972180/

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'East Africa Protectorate [now Kenya]. Plan of Mombasa Island. Provisional': 2 copies...