The map shows the mouth of the Shatt-El-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] river on the Persian Gulf, the tip of the Fao [Al-Faw] Peninsula in Iraq (with the Turkish Fort indicated), Iranian territory on the opposite side of the Shatt-El-Arab, the hard Bank of Abadan, and the soft mud Bank of Abdalla. Sound...
The map shows Koweit [Kuwait] Harbour. The map includes brief descriptions of topography and vegetation. Soundings (depths) in feet are indicated by the numbers shown, and the map also includes depth contour lines. The map is labelled as being drawn from a survey by Captain A C Burgess, and it...
The map, compiled in 1918, shows four different frontier lines between Transjordan [Jordan] and Nejd [Najd], in the Al Jauf [Al Jawf or Al-Jouf] region of what is now Saudi Arabia, with a key explaining what each frontier line is based on. The map indicates features including hydrology, tracks...
A map of Palestine, showing the provisional boundaries after partition
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A map of Palestine, Sinai, Trans-Jordan and Syria, showing the provisional frontiers after partition, with international boundaries, railways and roads (O.R.924, War Office, 1937).
Pencil sketch showing the border region between Iraq and Persia [Iran]. The map indicates the Karun and Bahmanshir rivers, the coastline of the Persian Gulf and the Shatt al-Arab, and the towns of Ahwaz [Ahvāz], Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], and Basrah [Basra]. A red pencil line indicates the border...
Map of Mirjáwa [Mīrjāveh] and surroundings. The map indicates: hydrology; topography, with some indication of relief; cultivated areas; irrigation channels and surface drainage; the positions of the old and new British posts; the position of the ruins of the old village of Mirjáwa. The map is si...
Map of Mirjáwa [Mīrjāveh] and surroundings. The map indicates: hydrology; cultivated areas; irrigation channels and surface water tank; the positions of the old and new British posts; the position of the ruins of the village of Mirjáwa. The map is signed by Colonel Arthur Henry McMahon, British ...
Copy of a map, referred to in an accompanying a letter written by Colonel Arthur Henry McMahon, British Commissioner, Seistan [Sīstān] Arbitration Commission, dated 5 November 1904 (ff 236-241). The letter refers to the boundary between Persia [Iran] and Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan] aro...
‘Rough sketch of Northern Section of Perso-Baluch Frontier’
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Sketch map illustration the northern frontier between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan]. The map is marked with two lines: a blue line, actually drawn in black and indicating the border as determined by the Holdich Agreement, and a red line, being the approximate li...
‘Copy of Map showing Territories adjacent to the Frontier’
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A copy of a large-scale map of Persia, referred to in an agreement between the British and Persian Governments of 27 December 1895. Notes on the map indicate three boundary lines: a red and green solid frontier line, as drawn by Major Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John in 1872; a dotted blue line...
