Sketch map of Sharjah Creek
IOR/L/PS/12/1978, f 55
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The record is made up of 1 map. It was created in Jan 1940. 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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A sketch map showing a section of Sharjah Creek (also referred to as Shajah Khor) created as a result of a survey undertaken by the Nearchus : a sketch map of the whole creek can be found on folio 53. An appended note dated 5 January 1940 by John Baron Howes, Political Officer for the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. can be found on folio 54. The purpose of the survey was to establish whether dredging the creek is a viable proposition. The map illustrates a proposed dredging stretch labelled 1 to 2, it also shows the approximate location of Sharjah town, Leyya Village, and the position of a petrol store and a nearby hill. The creek is coloured blue, the sand banks yellow, and the settlements in pencil.
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- 1 map
- Scale
- Scale approximately 1:1829
- Scale designator
- Horizontal
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- 932 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/12/1978
- Physical characteristics
Materials: Manuscript; coloured pencil and coloured crayon with typed additions on paper
Dimensions: 343 x 216mm
- Written in
- English in Latin script
- Type
- Map
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- 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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- Archive reference
- IOR/L/PS/12/1978, f 55
- Date(s)
- Jan 1940 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Hydrographic surveying
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- Sharjah Creek
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- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/12/1978, f 55
- Title
- Sketch map of Sharjah Creek
- Pages
- 55r
- Author
- Trucial Coast Political Agency
- Usage terms
- Public Domain
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/12/1978, f 55
- Title
- Sketch map of Sharjah Creek
- Pages
- 55v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence