Map of Robben Island

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Title
eng Map of Robben Island
Description
eng This map of Robben Island shows streets, Varney's Fort, Edmund's Pool, the lighthouse, Ladies' Rock, the slaughter house, Irish town, the boat house, restaurant, convict station, nurses' home, buildings housing the male lepers, tramway, kennels, the White House, buildings housing the female lepers, the quarry, sanitary tip, a spring, the old lime kiln and Wreck House. Also marked in a numbered key are the Chief and Medical Superintendent's quarters, workshops, the parsonage, the English Church, male asylum, a masonry tank, the female asylum. the Assistant Medical Officer, offices, the store, the library and billiard room, the Dutch parsonage, the Magistrate's quarters, the Works Department recreation room, the tram line, water pipes, drains and burial ground. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 600 feet.
Creator
eng Watson, D. Colquhoun.
Relation
eng Leprosy Commission 1895. Vol. III, Abstracts of replies to interrogatories, correspondence, acts relating to leprosy, etc.
eng Appendix I to the Votes and proceedings of Parliament\, Vol. I. Report C 4/2895.
Subject
eng Robben Island (South Africa)--Maps
Temporal Coverage
Contributor
eng Dawson, N.
Publisher
eng University of Cape Town. Libraries
eng University of Cape Town. Libraries. Special Collections. Cape of Good Hope Parliamentary Papers
Rights
eng This item is the property of the University of Cape Town Libraries. For permission to reproduce or quote, please contact the Special Collections of the University of Cape Town Libraries.
Replaces
eng islandora:25125
location
eng South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the--Robbeneiland
Medium
eng map
eng 55 x 44 cm.
fileFormat
eng image/jpeg
caption
This map of Robben Island dates back to 1895 and shows the convict station, the male lepers quarters, the nurses’ home, the boat house, the cowshed and slaughterhouse and Ladies’ Rock, among other features.
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