Title: Congo River Valley & Zambezi River Valley, 1732 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2012
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: 2012-02
- Coverage: 1732
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: L'Ethiopie occidentale, par le Sr. D'Anville, Geographe ordre. du Roi. It was published in 1732. Scale [ca. 1:9,250,000]. Map in French. Covers the Congo River Valley and the Zambezi River Valley, and portions of Central and Eastern Africa.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Lambert Conformal Conic projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also notes.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.
Subjects
- Transportation
- Congo River
- Zambezi River
- Angola
- Botswana
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Congo, Republic of the
- Gabon
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Africa, Central
- Africa, Eastern
- Maps
- Valleys
- Human settlements
- Cities and towns
- Villages
- Landforms
- Bodies of water
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- inlandWaters
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-7.62561, 51.576677, 9.299213999999999, -28.759417)
- Geometry: BBOX (-7.62561, 51.576677, 9.299213999999999, -28.759417)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782. Congo River Valley & Zambezi River Valley, 1732 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g8650-1732-a5
Format
GeoTIFF