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'PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.' [50] (56/114)
The record is made up of 56 folios. It was created in 1903. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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persian gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.— resources and defences.
KISHM ISLAND.
(See Admiralty Charts 753 and 2,837 a.)
Clarence
Strait.
Kishm and
Bassidu.
Water.
Oil.
Kishm Island lies at the entrance of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, close
to the Persian shore. Its length is 60 miles, roughly lii and W.
The breadth varies from 6 to 19 miles. The surface of the
interior is very irregular.
The island is separated from the Persian coast by Clarence
Strait, which is from 1 to 7 miles wide.*
The chief places of interest on the island are Bassidu at the
W. end, and Kishm Town at the E. end, both described later.
Kishm Island, generally speaking, is fairly well off for
water.
It is stated that naphtha is found on the island.
Note.—In 1852 Kishm Island was taken by Persia from the
Sultan of Oman (Maskat), but reverted to the latter again in
1855 on lease.
In 1868 the lease was forcibly terminated by Persia, since
which time the island has remained Persian territory.
At present the government is administered by the Sheikh of
Kishm (Town), under the nominal superintendence of the
Persian Governor of Bunder Abbas (on the mainland).
BASSIDU (BASIDTJ or BASSIDORE).
{See Admiralty Charts 35, 753, and 2,837 a.)
Bassidu is the name of the British concession at the extreme
N.W. point of Kishm Island. The land was originally granted
to the British Government by the Sultan of Oman (Maskat) in
1820. During the various changes of Government! to which,
since that time, the Island of Kishm has been subject, the
British concession has held good.
After the British expedition of 1819, the troops, at first
stationed near Kishm Town, and afterwards at Salak Point
(opposite Ilenjam Island), were transferred to Bassidu in 1S2J,
and remained two years. A garrison was maintained at Bassidu
up to 1883.
* Bassidu Avas a station for the Indian Marine up to 1879.
At present British authority is represented by a native
agent.
Limits of The boundary of the British concession is not exactly defined.
British con- — —
cession.
c " A report of June 1903 states that the anchorage off Laft Point in the
centre of the Strait forms a good harbour for the largest ships, and is
thoroughly well protected from all winds. It could easily be defended
from attack.
1 See Note under Kishm Island.
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Printed report published by the Intelligence Department of the Admiralty, 1903. The report includes advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance, under-water defences. Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Report, 1898.
There are details on Muscat; Mussandam Promontory; Khor Kawi [Khawr al Quway‘], Elphinstone Inlet [Khawr ash Shamm], Khasab; Pirate Coast; Bahrain; Kuwait; Fao [Al Fāw]; Basra; Bushire; Lingah; Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas].
Also included is an 'Official statement of British Policy with regard to (1) the proposed Baghdad Railway; and (2) Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. generally' given in the House of Lords, May 5, 1903.
Maps include: rough sketch of operations in the vicinity and Bushire from the 3rd to the 10th February 1857 (Reproduced from Outram's Persian Campaign 1857); sketch of the attack on the batteries of Mohumra [Khorramshahr]: combined naval and military forces under command of Sir James Outram; sketch of the ground in the neighbourhood of Ahwaz [Ahvāz] on the Karun [Kārūn], showing the position occupied by the Persian Army, and the advance of the British detachment upon the town, March 1857. At the back of the report there is a large fold-out map: General Outline Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. showing Submarine Cables and the Principal Places mentioned in the Report.
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on a map that is stored in a sleeve at the back of the volume, on number 57.
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