Africa 1:1,000,000.
Great Britain.War Office.General Staff.Geographical Section.
[London] : War Office,
1911-50.
Set includes various issues of some sheets.
"Projection of the International map [of the world]."
Relief shown by gradient tints, contours, hachures or spot heights; heights in meters.
Some sheets have aeronautical information.
Railroad, road, and boundary classifications are generally indicated.
"Territorial boundaries ... have not been demarcated in all instances, and the representation of them is not to be regarded as official."
Most sheets have marginal maps or diagrams showing index to boundaries and index to adjoining sheets.
Set includes sheets compiled variously by British War Office, French Service géographique de l'Armée, Service géographique du Maroc, Service géographique de l'Afrique occidentale française, Italian Istituto geografico militare, Service cartographique du ministère des colonies de Belgique, East African Survey Group, Sudan Survey Dept., Survey Dept. of Egypt, and South African Trigonometrical Survey Office. Some sheets published by East African Survey Group (EAF...) and British Middle East Forces (M.D.R. 1).
Sheet N H 36 (Cairo) is published in series Asia 1:1,000,000 (G.S.G.S. 2555).
Graphic index in central GSGS file.