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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Hydrographic surveying Material Type Maps and Plans

1. IOR/L/PS/12/1972, f 245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1972, f 245
Title:
‘PERSIAN GULF: PLANS OF THE NORTH EAST COAST OF BAHRAIN ISLAND’
Scope & Content:
A map included to illustrate proposals for an alighting area at Manama to facilitate the introduction of flying boat services by Imperial Airways via Bahrain. It illustrates the seaborne approaches to Bahrain Harbour and Khor Kaliya [Khawr al Qulay‘ah]. The map shows Bahrain island and the surro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1937
Extent:
1 map

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1978, f 48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1978, f 48
Title:
Sketch Map of Dubai Creek
Scope & Content:
A map illustrating Dubai Creek created as a result of a survey undertaken between 11-14 January 1941 by Bernard Whitteron, Chartered Civil Engineer, on behalf of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). It is appended to a report: see folios 43-47. The purpose of the survey is to investig...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1941
Extent:
1 map

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1978, f 53

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1978, f 53
Title:
Sketch showing Sharjah Creek
Scope & Content:
A sketch map showing Sharjah Creek (also referred to as Shajah Khor) created as a result of a survey undertaken by the Nearchus: this survey shows the whole creek. An appended note dated 5 January 1940 by John Baron Howes, Political Officer for the Trucial Coast can be found on folio 54. The purp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1940
Extent:
1 map

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1978, f 55

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1978, f 55
Title:
Sketch map of Sharjah Creek
Scope & Content:
A sketch map showing a section of Sharjah Creek (also referred to as Shajah Khor) created as a result of a survey undertaken by the Nearchus: a sketch map of the whole creek can be found on folio 53. An appended note dated 5 January 1940 by John Baron Howes, Political Officer for the Trucial Coas...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1940
Extent:
1 map

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1978, f 56

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1978, f 56
Title:
Sketch map of Sharjah Creek
Scope & Content:
A sketch map showing a section of Sharjah Creek (also referred to as Shajah Khor) created as a result of a survey undertaken by the Nearchus: a sketch map of the whole creek can be found on folio 53. An appended note dated 5 January 1940 by John Baron Howes, Political Officer for the Trucial Coa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1940
Extent:
1 map

6. IOR/X/10309

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/10309
Title:
‘Persian Gulf single charts.–Memoir.–Lieut. Houghton’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a ‘memoir’ written by Lieutenant Michael Houghton, draughtsman on board the Honorable Company’s ship Discovery, which consists of a description of places encountered during the East India Company’s survey of the Persian Gulf during the 1820s. The memoir covers the survey’s jo...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1822
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)