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South Sudan Info » United Nations http://southsudaninfo.net A MoJo's journal of reportages, multimedia & resources Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:03:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © South Sudan Info 2010 widge@southsudaninfo.net (South Sudan Info) widge@southsudaninfo.net (South Sudan Info) http://southsudaninfo.net/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg South Sudan Info http://southsudaninfo.net 144 144 UNDER CONSTRUCTION! South Sudan Info South Sudan Info widge@southsudaninfo.net no no Mapping Sudan http://southsudaninfo.net/2008/12/mapping-sudan/ http://southsudaninfo.net/2008/12/mapping-sudan/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:10:11 +0000 widge http://burningbillboard.org/?p=221 [MONTRÉAL] Before going somewhere for the first time, it’s always nice to get a preliminary view of the place, if only to feed the excitement with anticipation. Maps have always been, for me, synonymous with adventure; a preliminary step toward discovery of a future destination. Maps always help me orient myself quickly to a place shortly after arrival. Actually, they make me feel as though I know the place long before arriving. Entering a central square, crossing a major intersection or circling a roundabout in a city for the first time can bring about a sense of nostalgia from cartographic familiarity in absentia.

Below, I’ll continually add maps I find that will give me that I-know-this-place feeling once I get myself to Sudan and help me better understand the situation there: its history, the migration of refugees & internally displaced persons (IDPs), its physical landscape and topography, its transport network, its development strategies, etc.

To view a much more comprehensive and growing list of maps click on Maps Tab above

SELECTED MAPS (Click to download or view better quality image.)

GENERAL:

January 1, 1956 Line of Demarcation Map

(source: Map No. 3707 Rev. 10, UNITED NATIONS, Department of Peacekeeping Operations Cartographic Section, April 2007; demarcation line source is US Department of State)

(source: Map No. 3707 Rev. 10, UNITED NATIONS, Department of Peacekeeping Operations Cartographic Section, April 2007; demarcation line source is US Department of State)

South Sudan Challenges Map

(source: Reuters, 2011)

Satelite Image Map

(Source: NASA)

MIGRATION MAPS:

Spontaneous Returns from Place of Displacement and Final Destination of Returnees (tracked on-route)

(source: International Organization for Migration IOM, 2008)

(source: International Organization for Migration IOM, 2008)

IOM Internally Displaced Persons Return Routes – by road, river and air 2007-2008

(source: International Organization for Migration, 28 January 2008)

(source: International Organization for Migration, 28 January 2008)

IDP Registration, Returns and Refugee Repatriation supported by IOMIDP Registration, Returns and Refugee Repatriation supported by IOM

(source: IOM GIS Unit, Data Source: IOM IDP RegistrationDatabases, Movement statistics & '4  IOM supported repatriation statistics; 18.09.2007)

(source: IOM GIS Unit, Data Source: IOM IDP Registration Databases, Movement statistics & IOM supported repatriation statistics; 18/09/2007)

NATURAL RESOURCE MAPS:
European Coalition on Oil in Sudan
(source: European Coalition on Oil in Sudan, 2007)

(source: European Coalition on Oil in Sudan, 2007)

European Coalition on Oil in Sudan and National Park & Wildlife Reserve (overlay)

Sudan Oil / Wildlife Overlay (source: Wildlife Conservation Society and European Coalition on Oil in Sudan, 2007)

POLITICAL BOUNDARY MAPS:

Comparative Map of the Abyei Area

(source: Permanent Court for Arbitration, July 22, 2009)

Arbitration Award Map (source: Permanent Court of Arbitration, July 22, 2009)

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