Title: Nile River & Red Sea Region, 1884 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2012
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: 2012-01
- Coverage: 1884
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A map of the Nile, from the equatorial lakes to the Mediterranean : embracing the eastern Sudan (Kordofan, Darfur &c.) and Abyssinia. It was published by E. Stanford in 1884. Scale [ca. 1:6,000,000). Covers the Nile River and Red Sea regions. 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, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, roads, railroads, exploration routes, 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
- Nile River
- Red Sea
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo, Democratic Republic of
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gaza Strip
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Libya
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- West Bank
- Yemen
- Maps
- Human settlements
- Cities and towns
- Villages
- Landforms
- Bodies of water
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (15.936581, 53.192927, 34.499776, -2.879216)
- Geometry: BBOX (15.936581, 53.192927, 34.499776, -2.879216)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Edward Stanford Ltd. Nile River & Red Sea Region, 1884 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g8202-n5-1884-s7
Format
GeoTIFF