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...
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...
‘Beluchistan comprising Mekran and the Perso-Beluch Boundary.’
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Map of Beluchistan [British Baluchistan] including Mekran [Makran] and the Perso-Beluch frontier. Annotations on the map indicate that it was drawn and compiled by Captain Beresford Lovett of the Royal Engineers, who was attached to the Persian-British Baluchistan Frontier Delimitation Commissio...
Map of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand’s proposed frontier between Persia and Baluchistan
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Copy of a map showing Sir Henry Mortimer Durand’s proposed frontier between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], referred to in the agreement of 27 December 1895 between the Governments of Persia and Britain. The original of the map was signed by Lieutenant-Colonel He...