1:500,000 Africa (Air). [Index Map]

Title:

1:500,000 Africa (Air). [Index Map]

Description:

Complete in 11 sheets? Set includes various issues of some sheets, some reissued by U.S. Army Map Service. Sheets are numbered by the geographical co-ordinates of the south-west corner of each sheet. | Projection, Europe (Air) conical orthomorphic. | Heights in metres. Elevations shown by contours, altitude tints and spot heights. | Military grid. | Multiple and single track railroads, three classes of roads and woods are shown. Aeronautical information includes landing facilities, navigation aids and hazards and lines of equal magnetic variation. | Fathom lines and low water marks are based on Admiralty charts. | Marginal maps and diagrams on various sheets show adjoining sheets, index to boundaries, etc.

Creator/Contributor:

Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section. (Cartographer)

Date Created/Date Issued:

1941

Owning Repository:

Perry-Castañeda Library Maps, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin

Source Collection Name:

Africa (Air), 1:500,000, Series P404

Source Collection PID:

utlmaps:4a1fe1c8-47e0-4c44-8af1-a4c9fb369422

Source Collection URI:

dams-p01-rh7.lib.utexas.edu/islandora/object/utlmaps:4a1fe1c8-47e0-4c44-8af1-a4c9fb369422

Type:

maps, cartographic, Military maps, and Topographic maps

Rights - Use and Reproduction:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Language:

English

Publisher:

[London]War Office, 1941-

Topic:

military maps

Place Name:

Africa

Geographic Coverage:

Africa (region) and Africa (area)

Cartographic Information:

1:500,000

UTL DAMS PID:

utlmaps:3fa191e3-2982-443f-a6ca-bea4a4f94e20

Related Resource - Host:

PCL Map Collection (title), dams.lib.utexas.edu/islandora/object/utlmaps:collection (uri), and https://lib.utexas.edu/maps/ (Digital collection URL)

Related Resource - Other:

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Africa 1:5,000,000 (title) and http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/africa_air/ (local)

Thumbnail URI:

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IIIF Manifest:

https://curio.lib.utexas.edu/assets/DAMS/utlmaps/utlmaps_3fa191e3-2982-443f-a6ca-bea4a4f94e20/manifests/2/utlmaps_3fa191e3-2982-443f-a6ca-bea4a4f94e20.json

Date Added:

2022-12-22