Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depth shown by soundings with anchorage marked. Tracing of sketch map showing location of mineral deposits with settlements and wells marked, includes a key to symbols and an explanatory note dated 19th June 1909. Island’s highest point, length ...
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Map is lettered for reference with a key and explanatory note provided in accompanying text (folio 34). The area over which a prospecting license is required by the Burmah Oil Company Limited is coloured pink. Shows the Agency House and Teleg...
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depth shown by soundings and isolines. An enlarged photographic copy of a nautical chart dated 25 August 1933 and reviewed 5 October 1933, with title, dates and annotation inserted in hand at the bottom right-hand corner. Shows the waters nort...
Map showing Bahrain, its territorial waters and surrounding coastlines. An area is marked on the map using red lines which connect points labelled A - I; this outlined area, which covers Bahrain's territorial islands and waters but not the main island itself, is to be granted to Petroleum Conces...
This file contains correspondence regarding a number of topics including the role of the youth in anti-British agitation in Bahrain, anti-British sentiment in the Arabic-language press, attempts to hire an appropriate official to draw up criminal and penal codes for Bahrain, the suspected anti-B...
This file contains detailed financial records and Bahrain Government budget, revenue and expenditure reports for the years 1937 until 1941 (hijri years 1356 - 1360). The file contains extensive correspondence regarding the alleged profligacy of Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (and his request ...
This file contains correspondence concerning a number of different topics, all of which are related to Kuwait. The ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ is mentioned throughout the volume and much of the file's content relates to his character and his travels within the region includ...
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the succession of various rulers of Kuwait. The correspondence discusses the following: The death of Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ and the succession of his eldest son, Shaikh Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ The death of Shaikh Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ and th...
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the status of the border between Iraq and Kuwait following the Iraqi Government expressing an interest in applying for admission to the League of Nations in Geneva. The officials also discuss a recent incident in which a board...
The volume’s contents relate to Anglo-Saudi negotiations over the extent of Saudi Arabia’s borders, and are a continuation of the contents of file IOR/R/15/1/607. The chief correspondents are a range of British Government officials, including Lawrence Dundas, Secretary of State for India, Reader...