Cameroons under British Mandate 1937 / Malby & Sons Litho.

Issuing body
Great Britain. Colonial Office [Browse]
Format
Map
Εdition
Issued in 1938.
Published/​Created
  • [Teddington, England] : [Directorate of Colonial Surveys], 1924.
  • London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1938.
  • [London] : Malby & Sons, Litho., 1938.
Description
  • Scale 1:2,000,000 or 1 inch to 31.56 miles. (E 8°33ʹ00ʹʹ--E 14°37ʹ00ʹʹ/N 12°30ʹ00ʹʹ--N 3°53ʹ24ʹʹ).
  • 1 map : color ; 57 x 35 cm

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Notes
  • 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.
  • Map shows international, provincial, Nigeria-Cameroons, divisional, and district boundaries, territories administered as part of Bornu, Adamawa, and Benue are color coded, three classes of roads, telegraph lines, wireless stations, native courts, native administration schools, European missions stations (Basel, Roman Catholic, and Baptist), Roman Catholic catechumenates; Basel Mission schools; and lighthouses.
  • "2426,2219A.4122,895/9/38."
  • Original maps are filed in the Map/Geospatial Center, map reproductions are attached to companion volumes.
With
Issued to accompany volume: Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the administration of the Cameroons under British Mandate for the year 1937 / London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1938.
Geographic coverage
Map covers part of Cameroon and part of Nigeria.
Other format(s)
Available also online through: Princeton University Libraries, Digital Map & Geographic Data Web site.
In
Colonial Office. Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the administration of the Cameroons under British Mandate for the year 1937. Colonial 153, map facing page 138. London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1938. (138 pages: 1 map folded ; 25 cm).
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