Royal Geographical Society (RGS)
The Congo River, 1902
28 x 20 in (each sheet)
71 x 51 cm (each sheet)
71 x 51 cm (each sheet)
AFR6177
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A Map of the Congo River between Leopoldville and Stanley Falls [in 5 sheets] An extraordinary map of the Congo River from Kinshasa to Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville), published in 10...
A Map of the Congo River between Leopoldville and Stanley Falls [in 5 sheets]
An extraordinary map of the Congo River from Kinshasa to Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville), published in 10 sections across 5 large sheets. Each page contains two sectional maps of the river, each mapped with exceptional detail based on roughly 200,000 measurements taken aboard the steamers Peace and Goodwill from 1884-89.
Rev. George Grenfell, a British Baptist missionary and explorer, undertook multiple voyages along the Congo and its tributaries between 1884 and 1889 to establish missions and to create charts of hitherto unmapped areas. Both Baptist and Catholic missions are marked on the map, many of which were founded by Grenfell himself.
This monumental achievement remains one of the most detailed maps of the Congo River ever published. Colonial surveys in 1915 did provide some updates to the Grenfell survey, but these maps remain in use to this day, often to the detriment of modern-day ship captains trying to contend with ever-changing river patterns.
Printed colour. [SL]
An extraordinary map of the Congo River from Kinshasa to Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville), published in 10 sections across 5 large sheets. Each page contains two sectional maps of the river, each mapped with exceptional detail based on roughly 200,000 measurements taken aboard the steamers Peace and Goodwill from 1884-89.
Rev. George Grenfell, a British Baptist missionary and explorer, undertook multiple voyages along the Congo and its tributaries between 1884 and 1889 to establish missions and to create charts of hitherto unmapped areas. Both Baptist and Catholic missions are marked on the map, many of which were founded by Grenfell himself.
This monumental achievement remains one of the most detailed maps of the Congo River ever published. Colonial surveys in 1915 did provide some updates to the Grenfell survey, but these maps remain in use to this day, often to the detriment of modern-day ship captains trying to contend with ever-changing river patterns.
Printed colour. [SL]
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