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‘Copy of the Survey of India map of Baluchistan. Published in 1894.’ [57v] (2/2)
The record is made up of 1 map. It was created in 1894-1896. 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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Copy of a map showing the frontier region between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], produced from a Survey of India map of Baluchistan. The map is marked as being a true copy by Lieutenant-Colonel R A Wahab, Survey Officer of the Perso-Baluch Boundary Commission, dated 5 April 1896. A note at the bottom of the map states that it was published under the direction of Colonel Charles Strahan, Royal Engineers, and Surveyor General of India, in June 1896. The map indicates: hydrology; settlements; desert areas; the frontier, as a solid red and green line; numbered border posts along the frontier.
Printing statements in the bottom right corner of the map read: ‘Photozincographed at the Office of the Trigonometrical Branch, Survey of India, Dehra Dún [Dehradun].’ and ‘Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Calcutta [Kolkata].’
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- 1 map
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- Scale
- 1:1,013,760
- Scale designator
- Horizontal
- Orientation
- North
- Degree coordinates
- Top-left: 30° 0' 9" N, 61° 1' 5.16" E
Top-right: 30° 0' 9" N, 64° 0' 22.68" E
Bottom-left: 26° 46' 30" N, 61° 1' 5.16" E
Bottom-right: 26° 46' 30" N, 64° 0' 22.68" E - Physical characteristics
Dimensions: 530 x 405 mm.
Materials: printed on paper.
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- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 57
- Title
- ‘Copy of the Survey of India map of Baluchistan. Published in 1894.’
- Pages
- 57r:57v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence