Wood and Ortlepp (sold)
Wood and Ortlepp (FL. 1898-1904) were a surveying and mapmaking firm based in Cape Town, who specialized in regional maps of South Africa. In 1899 they formed an agreement to produce on behalf of the Field intelligence Department in Cape Town a detailed mapping of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, which was published as the thirty-one sheet ‘Imperial Map of South Africa,’ whose first edition was printed between January and April of 1900.
Describing the Northern Theatre of the Second Boer War
New Map: Briton or Boer Northern Extension. Compiled From Best Available Sources.
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This is Wood and Ortlepp's 1900 map of Northern South Africa, southern Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Botswana, called 'New Map: Briton or Boer. Northern Extension.' The map shows the northern theatre of the Second Boer War, and was produced while the conflict was under way. The map focuses on the Northern Transvaal southern Rhodesia, Bechuanaland and the Portuguese Territory: what is now northern South Africa, southern Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and Botswana. Though the war's few set battles took place south of Pretoria, this was Boer territory during the later stages of the conflict. Pietersburg, for example, would not be occupied by the British until April of 1901. The superabundance of Boer place names throughout the Transvaal portion of the map, and the paucity of railways and telegraph lines, attest to the extent to which this was 'enemy territory' for the British. (more details)