‘Abū-Shahr Peninsula. By Lieut. A.W. Stiffe. H.M.I.N.’
IOR/X/3117/2
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The record is made up of 1 map sheet. It was created in Sep 1875. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Map Collections.
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Imprint:
Published by order of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India in Council.
Distinctive Features:
Note below scale: ‘This map is from a plane-table survey, based on a careful triangulation; the part north of the town, creeks, &c. are taken from the chart of the harbour by Comr. Constable and Lieut. Stiffe. It is intended as an illustration of the Campaign of 1856-7 in the peninsula’.
Includes an inset A small map or other image enclosed within the margin of a larger map, map sheet, or larger image; or papers placed inside a book or archival volume. plan of Būshihr at top centre.
Legends and notations concerning the area cover the face of the map.
Manuscript copy of this map at IOR/X/3117/1.
Inscriptions:
Signed in the bottom left-hand corner ‘Trel. Saunders, engraver 1875’; and in the bottom right-hand corner ‘A.W. Stiffe delt.’
- Extent and format
- 1 map sheet
- Area map covers
- Map loading...
- Scale
- approximately 1:48,000
- Scale designator
- Horizontal
- Orientation
- North
- Degree coordinates
- Top-left: 29° 7' 7.79" N, 50° 42' 23.54" E
Top-right: 29° 7' 7.79" N, 51° 2' 17.13" E
Bottom-left: 28° 47' 32.88" N, 50° 42' 23.54" E
Bottom-right: 28° 47' 32.88" N, 51° 2' 17.13" E - Physical characteristics
Dimensions: 580 x 587 mm, on sheet 902 x 642 mm
- Written in
- English in Latin script
- Type
- Map
Archive information for this record
- Original held at
- British Library: Map Collections
- Access conditions
Unrestricted
- Archive reference
- IOR/X/3117/2
- Former external reference(s)
- M.V.27
- Date(s)
- Sep 1875 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Places
- Abū-Shahr
- People & organisations
- C.G. ConstableArthur William StiffeTrelawney William Saunders
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- IOR/X/3117/2
- Title
- ‘Abū-Shahr Peninsula. By Lieut. A.W. Stiffe. H.M.I.N.’
- Pages
- 1r:1v
- Author
- Stiffe, Arthur William
- Usage terms
- Public Domain