The Oxford Atlas of the British Colonies

Abstract

THE first thirteen plates consist of coloured maps, and the remaining four are outlines intended for use as “test” maps or for other class purposes. The first map shows a hemisphere in which Cape Colony occupies the centre, and it is possible from it to see at once the relation of South Africa to the other continents. Map ii. is a political map of the world drawn in accordance with Mollweides's equal1 area projection, and the student will notice at a glance the apparent distortion in shape, though the relative sizes of land areas in different parts of the map are correctly shown. In addition to meteorological charts, the atlas includes physical and political maps of Africa, and maps of Cape Colony, Natal and Zululand, the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, Rhodesia, and of West, East, and Central Africa.

The Oxford Atlas of the British Colonies.

Part i. British Africa. Seventeen maps. (Oxford Geographical Institute: William Stanford and Co., Ltd., n.d.) Price 2s. 6d. net.