‘Sketch map of Qatar Peninsula’
IOR/R/15/1/630, f 218
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The record is made up of 1 map. It was created in 1935. 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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Distinctive Features:
Copy based on a map of Asia drawn to scale 1:1,000,000 issued by the War Office with adjustments controlled by traverses made during a survey carried out in February 1933 for the Iraq Petroleum Co. Ltd.
Shows roads and wells with boundary indicated by dash-dot line.
Inscriptions:
On verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. , in the lower right in pencil: ‘See 82/27 – V paper 51’.
- Extent and format
- 1 map
- Area map covers
- Map loading...
- Scale
- Scale not given
- Scale designator
- Horizontal
- Orientation
- North
- Degree coordinates
- Top-left: 26° 21' 2.16" N, 50° 20' 7.08" E
Top-right: 26° 21' 2.16" N, 51° 38' 35.88" E
Bottom-left: 24° 28' 15.96" N, 50° 20' 7.08" E
Bottom-right: 24° 28' 15.96" N, 51° 38' 35.88" E - It is part of
- 466 imagesRef: IOR/R/15/1/630
- Physical characteristics
Dimensions:
389 x 235 mm, on sheet 417 x 329 mm
- Written in
- English in Latin script
- Type
- Map
Archive information for this record
- Original held at
- 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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Unrestricted
- Archive reference
- IOR/R/15/1/630, f 218
- Date(s)
- 1935 (CE, Gregorian)
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- QatarShatt al ʻArab
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- Reference
- IOR/R/15/1/630, f 218
- Title
- ‘Sketch map of Qatar Peninsula’
- Pages
- 218r:218v
- Author
- Unknown
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