'File 6/28 IV Saudi Arabia - Muscat Boundary' [‎37r] (73/106)

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Arabia is clsarl./ vierined topographically,
■^atar is ttie high land and the frontier is
whore the hills co le down to the sand and the
salt flats at the southern end of the penin
sula at its west side.
3* Evidence
(157/151/49G)
(i) Muha
Bahrain tel. Ho.
34 to Jedda of
Beni Ha jar tri'
September 8 th
1949.
about 1*3 years
(33/138/50G)
Paragraph 2 of
Mr. Polly’s
letter 33A240/50G
of Sap tember 23 rd
to Mr. Rogers
(Foreign Office).
to Riyadh where he was asked by His Majesty
King Ibn Saud to define the southern boun
dary of ^atar. This ho did by giving a series
of names describing the boundary from Salwa
to the mouth of the Hhor al ’Odaid. He gave
a similar description of the boundary to
Saudi officials and to four foreign Consuls.
(ii) isansur bin Salim, Shaikh of the
Shawawin a section of the Beni Hajar who are
.iUb; eots of the Shaikh of 4 atar states that
there
is a pretty clear
geographical
defini
tion
of the boundary. T
ho sto.' y gre
and is
Qatar
and the sandy land
is Ibn Saul
* 0 T
*-)• ±4..
adc. i ~z
ion any camel grass
is 0 .i tm
U .i. ±
tory.
(Pile 61/31-vii
page 233) Briga
dier Longrigr’s
letter of April
19th 1948 to Mr.
Burrows (Foreign
Office). (F. 0 .
ref. E 4974/605/91)
6 . Evidence in category (c):
(i) ahe boundary of gatar as specified
in the map attached to the Petroleum Qonees^
sionts Limited concession was. marked on the
ground in 1940 by concrete pillars and the
geophysical (seismic) parties who were explo
ring in the 1947-48 season covered the whole
of the western half (of the peninsula) right
up to the concession boundary.
/(ii)