the Guinean countries after 1889 g. Southern nigerija

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In Southern Nigeria Steel and others have spent the big topographical shootings in 1904-1907 to the north from a parallel 5°30! ju. sh. Between the rivers Nigers and Cross-country. The territory to the south from this parallel between 1892 and was studied 1895 superficially enough, but subsequently more carefully. On an East side by 1909 geodetic works between the rivers Jola and the Cross-country, the borders undertaken in connection with demarcation between Nigeria and Cameroon have been finished. As to a border site between the river Iola and lake Chad it is photographed in 1903 With reorganisation in 1910 of geodetic service in Southern Nigeria research of this area it was possible to consider finished.

Further to the West the first decade of this century was marked by the big successes. In 1898 - 1900 border demarcation between Dahomey and That has been made, in 1902 there have been begun geodetic works for border carrying out between That and Gold Coast, and in 1903 there was Demarkirovana a border between English possession and Liberia. Geodetic works in connection with border demarcation between Liberia and the French colonies have been finished by 1909, and spent in the same year Parkinsonom, Ouenom and others semochno-geodetic works in internal areas of Liberia have led to liquidation of many white stains on a card of Liberia. The geodetic service of Gold Coast has developed the activity in 1901, and Frenchmen have begun the same year full geographical studying of the colony of Ivory coast. Thus, now it is possible to tell, that, minus certain areas of Liberia, all territory round gulf of Guinea, from Nigeria to the river Gambia, well-known.