The map shows the docks built on the south bank of the Shatt-Al Arab at Margil [Al Ma‘qil], near Basra, Mesopotamia. Features and facilities (some labelled I.W.T. [Inland Water Transport]) shown on the map include: dock infrastructure, including shipping berths, wharves, water channels, depots a...
The map shows Basra, Magil [Al Ma‘qil], and the surrounding area. Key geographical features, specifically the Shatt Al-Arab and its creeks, are indicated in black ink. Also shown in black ink are: villages, buildings, railway lines, and numerous other facilities, most labelled with text (P. of W...
‘Lower Mesopotamia between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The map is printed in four colours, with each colour being used to indicate a different category of features: blue: hydrographical features, including the river systems of the Euphrates and Tigris, canals, marshes and lakes, and their names. Notes on the flooding characteristics of different geo...
‘Sheet No. 1 Canal and Communication Map of Mesopotamia’
Scope & Content:
The map shows: existing canals and river systems, marked with blue lines; new canals, or the extensions to existing canals, marked with dashed blue lines; the direction of flow of rivers, indicated by small black arrows; district boundaries, marked with thick red dashed lines, and the names of e...
‘Sheet No. 2 Canal and Communication Map of Mesopotamia’
Scope & Content:
The map is an additional sheet intended to accompany the map on the preceding folio (f 53). Although this map bears no key, it uses the same colour-coding and symbols as found on folio 53, as follows: existing canals and river systems, marked with blue lines; new canals, or the extensions to exi...
