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Africa's Great Lakes
- Title
- Africa's Great Lakes [cartographic material] / by National Geographic Maps for the National Geographic Society.
- Author
- National Geographic Maps (Firm)
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Cartographic | Use in library | Map Div. 12-255 | Schwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- National Geographic Society (U.S.)
- Description
- 1 map : col.; 79 x 51 cm.
- Summary
- "Africa's Great Lakes are a shimmering outline of the Great Rift Valley. Victoria, Tanganyika, and Malawi are among the world's ten largest lakes. The Great Lakes proper usually include Victoria and the lakes that curve to its west, but remarkable lakes also trace other arms of the complex Great Rift Valley, from Ethiopia down through Kenya and Tanzania. The western arm of Africa's Great Rift Valley, the Albertine Rift, embraces such rich and varied habitats that its wildlife diversity is unparalleled on the continent. With deep freshwater lakes filling the valley's spine, the Albertine spans mountains, marshes, savannas, and active volcanoes. The geologic forces that created this rift valley are still in motion, mostly visible at its center, around Lake Kivu"--Publisher.
- Alternative Title
- Great Rift Valley : dynamics of life in the Albertine Rift
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Maps.
- Thematic maps.
- Note
- Relief shown by shading and spot heights.
- "Supplement to National Geographic, November, 2011."
- "Printed September 2011."
- Designed to be folded to 20 x 13 cm.
- Map of "Realms of the Albertine", inset map of population density, ancillary maps of geological changes and volcanism, text, and col. ill. on verso.
- Call Number
- Map Div. 12-255
- OCLC
- 759184231
- Author
- National Geographic Maps (Firm)
- Title
- Africa's Great Lakes [cartographic material] / by National Geographic Maps for the National Geographic Society.
- Imprint
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c2011.
- Cartographic Data
- Scale 1:4,222,000. 1 cm. = 42.2 kilometers. 1 in. = 66.6 miles ; Transverse Mercator proj. (E 27°--E 45°/N 6°--S 21°).
- Added Author
- National Geographic Society (U.S.)
- Supplement To:
- National geographic v.220, no.5 (Nov. 2011) (OCoLC)6451257
- Research Call Number
- Map Div. 12-255