Title: Central, Northern, and Eastern Africa, 1862 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2013
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library
- Tremaux, P. (Pierre)
- Erhard Bros. (Firm)
- Societe de geographie (France)
Dates
- Issued: 2013-10
- Coverage: 1862
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Esquisse de l'Afrique centrale et orientale, dressee par P[ier]re Tremaux, d'apres ses propres voyages et renseignements et ceux de M. M. Livingston, Burton, Speke ... [et al.] ; grave chez Erhard, r[ue] Bonaparte 42. It was published by Societe de Geographie in 1862. Scale 1:10,000,000. Covers Northern, Central, and Eastern Africa. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Sinusoidal 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, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, dunes, and more. Relief shown by hachures. 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
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Congo, Republic of the
- Cyprus
- Dijibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Greece
- Kenya
- Libya
- Mali
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Africa, Central
- Africa, Northern
- Africa, Eastern
- Maps
- Human settlements
- Cities and towns
- Villages
- Landforms
- Bodies of water
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-6.633358, 58.913021, 41.307996, -13.866795)
- Geometry: BBOX (-6.633358, 58.913021, 41.307996, -13.866795)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library, Tremaux, P. (Pierre), Erhard Bros. (Firm), Societe de geographie (France). Central, Northern, and Eastern Africa, 1862 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g8200-1862-t7
Format
GeoTIFF