Hydrography and Navigation on the Congo River

Part I. General hydrographic description of the Haut-Congo Basin.- Chapter 1. Introduction to the general geography of the DRC.- Chapter 2. Early shipping on the Haut-Congo.- Chapter 3. From the source to Kisangani: The Upper-Congo.- Chapter 4. From Kisangani to Mbandaka: The High Middle-Congo and Ubangi.- Chapter 5. The Low Middle-Congo: From Mbandaka to Tsumbiri.- Chapter 6. The last stretch to Kinshasa: The Congo Couloir.- Chapter 7. The Upper-Kasai watershed.- Chapter 8. The Sankuru, Fimi-Lukenie and Lower-Kasai tributaries.- Chapter 9. The Kwango and Kwilu River watersheds.- Chapter 10. The Congo Cataracts.- Part II. Early European mapping of the Maritime Congo River.- Chapter 11. The first Europeans venture up the Congo Estuary.- Chapter 12. The Kouilou-Niari, an alternative access?.- Chapter 13. The voyage from Europe to Congo.- Part III. The Hydrography of the Maritime Congo River.- Chapter 14. Introduction to the Bas-Congo.- Chapter 15. Early maps of the maritime river.- Chapter 16. The acute need for bathymetric surveys.- Chapter 17. Hydrographic basics in the tropics.- Chapter 18. A new navigation channel in the making.- Chapter 19. The Mateba Deceiving Bend (Barrage du Faux Bras de Mateba).- Chapter 20. Difficult years.- Chapter 21. Independence in 1960.- Chapter 22. Based on detailed land surveys.- Chapter 23. Epilogue: A concept for the future?

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• Geografia
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Environment;Geography;History of Central Africa;River Engineering;Surveying