ABSTRACT
Cameroon is bordered by the Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria. Slightly larger than California, the coastline is 402 km along the Bight of Biafra by the Atlantic Ocean. Bantu speakers were among the first groups to settle Cameroon, followed by the Muslim Fulani in the 18th and 19th centuries. Treaties with tribal chiefs in 1884 brought the area under German domination. The new projection is a Gauss conformal projection applied to zones of 6° of longitude in width. These zones, identical to those of the 1:1,000,000 International Map of the World, are indicated on the attached index map. The new UTM projection differs from the Gauss projection adopted at the end of 1945 in the sense that it is a direct projection of the ellipsoid on the plane instead of being an indirect projection employing the intermediary of a sphere upon which the ellipsoid is applied before projecting it on the plane.”
