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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Hydrographic surveying Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

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/12/3920

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3920
Title:
Coll 30/182 'Oil: Question of survey of north-eastern corner of Qatar.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a request by Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited to the India Office that a British Government survey vessel should survey the north-east coast of the Qatar Peninsula between Ras Umm Hasah and Ras Luffain [Ra's Lafān]. The area between those two places had been identified by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1939-17 Jun 1939
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/5/161

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/161
Title:
File 2/8 II Kuwait water supply from the Shatt al-Arab
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence among British officials in the Persian Gulf and London, as well as the Kuwaiti Government on various means of securing a reliable supply of water for Kuwait. The papers vary from proposal for a condensing plant, and possible pipeline from Basra in Iraq, to obtai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1943-14 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (230 folios)