- Brownlie's African Boundaries
I have a copy of Brownlie on loan from the university for the next month. If anyone wants me to look anything up for them, let me know. I ll happily transcribe
Jul 24, 2001 @ 22:21 - granthutchison@cs.com (granthutchison@...)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Brownlie's African Boundaries
... If ... Grant, I recently bought a topo-map of Nigeria (in a second-hand shop, I couldn t resist ..). This 1960 map is 1:1M, published bij Shell. It seems
Jul 31, 2001 @ 21:34 - Harry ten Veen ("Harry ten Veen" <pa8km@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Brownlie's African Boundaries
Harry, Mandates after World War I created some interesting boundary stories and probably the most interesting was the Cameroons. After the war, Three German
Jul 31, 2001 @ 22:31 - Arif Samad (Arif Samad <fHoiberg@...>)
- Re: Brownlie's African Boundaries
Harry: Arif has summarised the situation. The British bit of Cameroon was an eccentric shape - I m not sure if it tapered down to a trinational quadripoint at
Aug 01, 2001 @ 11:31 - granthutchison@cs.com (granthutchison@cs.com)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Brownlie's African Boundaries
Thank you Arif and Grant for explaining the former Nigerian border-situation(s)! ... River. No, the to parts are not connected: there is a peace of land of
Aug 02, 2001 @ 12:44 - Harry ten Veen ("Harry ten Veen" <pa8km@...>)
- Re: Brownlie's African Boundaries
For some background information on that wonderful subject of German colonies, see http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/ . Apart from Cameroon, Togo was also
Aug 03, 2001 @ 16:31 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
- Re: Brownlie's African Boundaries
... start of a ... Sorry - a small scanner and an unwieldy book! That s the El Beid River, flowing into Lake Chad. It s part of the old French/British border,
Aug 03, 2001 @ 17:00 - Grant Hutchison ("Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Brownlie's African Boundaries
A few things about German colonies - There was a third colony that was divided in two mandates. German East Africa was divided in British Tanganikya and
Aug 03, 2001 @ 21:04 - Arif Samad (Arif Samad <fHoiberg@yahoo.com>)
- Re: Brownlie's African Boundaries
... Yes, the third occurrence of this. Probably because Belgium was another country at war with Germany in WW1 and profited from it s defeat following
Aug 04, 2001 @ 00:54 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
- Re: Brownlie's African Boundaries
For a map of Greater Kamerun (= old Kamerun and Neukamerun), see http://www.jadu.de/jaduland/kolonien/landkarten/pages/kamerun.html Peter S. ... to ...
Aug 04, 2001 @ 01:01 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)