Details

Subject(s)

• Administrative and political divisions—Maps [Browse]
• Cameroon—Administrative and political divisions [Browse]
• Nigeria—Administrative and political divisions [Browse]
• Great Britain—Colonies [Browse]
• Cameroon—Maps [Browse]
• Nigeria—Maps [Browse]

Issuing body

• Great Britain. Colonial Office [Browse]
• Great Britain. Her Majesty's Stationery Office [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Thematic maps [Browse]
• Maps [Browse]

Series

• Colonial (Great Britain. Colonial Office) ; no. 334. [More in this series]
• Colonial ; no. 334

Notes

• Map shows: international, provincial, Nigeria-Cameroons, divisional, and district boundaries; customs stations; four classes of roads; railways; lighthouses; telegraph lines; wireless stations, and native courts. The Trustee Territory administered as part of Bornu, Adamawa, Benue, and by Southern Cameroons Government is shown by color code.
• The territory of the Cameroons under the United KIngdom trusteeship consisted of two mountainous strips on the eastern frontier of Nigeria, extending from Lake Chad to the Atlantic Ocean. It is divided by a strech of approximately 45 miles into north and south by the Benue River.
• "1900/1147/12-56."
• "Crown copyright reserved".
• Original maps are filed in the Map/Geospatial Center, map reproductions are attached to companion volumes.

With

Issued to accompany volume: The Cameroons under United Kingdom administration : Report by Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the General Assembly of the United Nations for the year 1956 / London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957.

Geographic coverage

This map shows part of Nigeria and part of Cameroon.

Other format(s)

Available also online through: Princeton University Libraries, Digital Map & Geographic Data Web site.

Refer to this Map as

• CAMEROONS : Scale:- 1:2,000,000

In

Colonial Office. The Cameroons under United Kingdom Administration : Report by Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the General Assembly of the United Nations for the year 1956. Colonial 334. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957. (217 pages: 2 folded maps in pocket at back of book ; 26 cm).

OCLC

1340465026

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