Madagascar 1:500,000. Series AMS Y471. [Index Map]
Title:
Madagascar 1:500,000. Series AMS Y471. [Index Map]
Description:
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. | Five classes of roads or paths are indicated. | Also covers Comoros Archipelago [sheet 1]. | Complete in 17 sheets, some sheets double-numbered, e.g. 7-8 or 14-15. Set includes various issues of some sheets, some reissued by the U.S. Army map service. | Based on a French series. "Sheet lines [and numbers] of original French series have been retained save that in some instances two sheets have been combined." Many sheets "copied from a map by E.F. Survey group dated 1942." | Various editions of some sheets. | Graticules ... are in grades [based on Paris] Latitude and longitude in degrees, based on Greenwich, indicated in graduated borders. | Military grid. | Isogonic data revised by A.M.S. 1943. | Marginal maps: Index to adjoining sheets. | Accompanied by index map on sheet 27 x 41 cm.
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