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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Musandam Peninsula , Arabian Peninsula Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/23
Title:
File 351/1904 'Persian Gulf:- Erection of British flagstaffs at Musandam’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the erection (and subsequent abandonment) of flagstaffs at the head of the Persian Gulf, on the Maklab [Maqlab] Isthmus at Musandam (Musandam spelt with numerous variations throughout the file), Telegraph Island [Jazīrat al Maqlab]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1908
Extent:

1 volume (221 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B388

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B388
Title:
'Memo on Mussondomom'
Scope & Content:
This is a copy of a printed memorandum, with correspondences by Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, dated January to February 1863, concerning locating the Persian Gulf Residency at Cape Mussundoom [Musandam]. In letter No. 2A (folios 1-4), date...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1863
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/18/B438

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B438
Title:
'Muscat. Question whether a naval station could be established for use by His Majesty's ships at Khor Quwai or elsewhere in Muscat territory compatibly with the existing international agreements of His Majesty's Government'.
Scope & Content:
This printed India Office report was written by John Gilbert Laithwaite and published in November 1934. It aims 'to examine, with particular reference to the proposal which has been put forward to establish a station at Khor Quwai [Khawr Quway] in the Musandim Peninsula, the history of the Decla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Nov 1934
Extent:

6 folios

4. IOR/R/15/6/30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/30
Title:
File XXIII/8 'Travels in Oman. Visit of B. Thomas to the Musandam Peninsula. 1928. Notes on Shihuh dialects & people, also Kumzaris'
Scope & Content:
This file contains a document entitled 'The Musandam Peninsula: its people the Shihuh and their dialects' written by Bertram Thomas, Adviser to the Sultan of Muscat. This document contains Thomas's description of the settlements, traditions and customs of the Shihuh tribe of the Musandam Penin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
Mar 1927
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)