Image / "The Basin of Lake Nyasa", Malawi, ca.1895

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Title: "The Basin of Lake Nyasa", Malawi, ca.1895
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1895
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
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The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description: Image of the basin of Lake Nyasa. Livingstonia, which was founded in 1894 by missionaries from the Free Church of Scotland, is marked on the map.
Lake Nyasa, which is also known as Lake Malawi, is the southern most lake in the Great Rift Valley system of East Africa. It is the third largest lake in Africa and the eighth largest lake in the world.
Type: image
Format: 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier: impa-m68366 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS3-1-001.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68366
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS3-1-001.jpg
Subject: Maps
Topographical views
Time Period: circa 1895
Place: Africa
Livingstonia
Malawi
Source: GB 237 CSWC47/LS3/1/1 [File]

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