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'File 10/10 III Bahrain Additional Area' [17r] (33/96)
The record is made up of 1 file (48 folios). It was created in 20 Nov 1949-5 Sep 1950. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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3. The Baina islancls were at one time, a^out
70 years ago, coneideratiy larger than they are today,
since then the sea has covered parts of the islands
which used to he ahove the high water level. When the
islands were larger than they are now they were a "breed
ing place for turtles which came ashore during the period
of the "Bara" wind, in June and part of July. The
Bu Palas trihe, of Hedd, were allowed toy Shaikh Isa,
the Ruler of Bahrain, to visit the islands in order to
catch turtles and to obtain turtle eggs. It was the
custom of these people to go to the islands during the
season and to live there in tents and huts while fishing,
they obtained their water supplies from the sutomarine
spring of Sharaiha which is situated off the coast
opposite Barhar. The use of the islands at that time
was forbidden except to people who obtained permission
to go there from Shaikh Isa. There are descendants of
people who were engaged in catching turtles on the Baina
islands alive in Bahrain today. Neither at that time
nor at any time subsequently did the inhabitants of
what is now Saudi Arabia visit the islands or make use
of them for fishing or for any other purpose.
4. After some years it seems that the turtles
ceased from coming to the islands to lay their eggs
and the people of Hedd gave up going there. The islands
however are prolific fishing grounds and in addition
they contain valuable deposits of guano. For the last
twentyfive years and probably for longer, people from
Bahrain, from Budeya and Barbar, which are the nearest
villages on the coast of Bahrain to the Baina islands,
have been trap fishing and removing guano from the
Baina islands. Nobody from Jlaudi Arabia has set traps
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The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the the Sheikh of Bahrain, Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifah, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain, the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on the claim of the Ruler of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud on islands off the Bahrain coast, on which he had erected concrete slabs and bronze plaques.
The file includes letters in Arabic, four photographs representing beacons on the islands (folios 23-24; 34-35) and a map 'Portion of U.S. Hydrographic Map N. 3647 Showing Area Explored by Geological, Geophysical and Structure Drilling Methods. January 4th, 1950' (folio 14).
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- 1 file (48 folios)
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The documents in the file are arranged in chronological order.
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The main foliation is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of each folio. It begins with the front cover of the file, on number 1, and runs through to 48, ending on the inside of the back cover of the file. There are also two other foliation sequences, both incomplete.
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- IOR/R/15/2/432
- Title
- 'File 10/10 III Bahrain Additional Area'
- Pages
- 16r:20r, 25r:26r
- Author
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
- Copyright
- UK Government Public Record
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