Hydrographic Office map showing the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, with a number of inset maps (including Doha and Abu Dhabi), and views of the coast and islands from the sea. Compiled from surveys by Captain John Michael Guy and Captain George Barnes Brucks, 1821-29, and by Commander Charles Go...
Part of a chart showing the extent of the territorial waters of Kuwait Bay. The map gives the area of Kuwait Bay as 215 square miles calculated on a line X-Y indicated on the map by a blue dotted line. A letter from the Admiralty dated 26 September 1946 to the India Office (folio 174) relates ...
Part of a chart showing the extent of the territorial waters of Kuwait Bay. The map gives the area of Kuwait Bay as 215 square miles calculated on a line X-Y indicated on the map. A letter from the Admiralty dated 12 June 1940 to the India Office (folio 326) relates to this map. Scale not giv...
Map Showing the Boundary of an Area outside Kuwait Territorial Waters
Scope & Content:
Part of chart 2837B used to indicate an area outside the limit of Kuwait territorial waters (by means of a red line drawn on the map). Scale 1 inch = 27 miles. Correspondence from the Kuwait Oil Company to the India Office, dated July 1939, including a copy of a letter from Frank Holmes, the L...
Map Showing the Boundary of an Area outside Kuwait Territorial Waters
Scope & Content:
Part of chart 2837B used to indicate an area outside the limit of Kuwait territorial waters (by means of a red line drawn on the map). Scale 1 inch = 27 miles. Correspondence from the Kuwait Oil Company to the India Office, dated July 1939, including a copy of a letter from Frank Holmes, the L...
Map Showing the Boundary of an Area outside Kuwait Territorial Waters
Scope & Content:
Part of chart 2837B used to indicate an area outside the limit of Kuwait territorial waters (by means of a red line drawn on the map). Scale 1 inch = 27 miles. Correspondence from the Kuwait Oil Company to the India Office, dated July 1939, including a copy of a letter from Frank Holmes, the L...
The map shows the location of Masirah Island off the southern coast of Oman. The map also shows the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of the surrounding countries in North and East Africa and the Middle East, and most of India. International boundaries are indicated with dashed and dotted lines. Th...
‘Sketch map showing the approximate locations of the BAHREIN OIL Co’s. establishments and other important points.’
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This sketch map shows the northern part of Bahrein Island [Bahrain Island], Muharrak Island, and Sitra Island. It indicates the approximate locations of establishments of the Bahrein Oil Company [the Bahrein Petroleum Company], including the oil fields, the refinery, the loading lines (pipes) ca...
‘Sketch map showing approximate layout of SHARJAH & DIBAI.’
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This blueprint sketch map shows the approximate layout of Sharjah and Dibai [Dubai]. It depicts the British Residency Agency at Sharjah, Sharjah Fort, including the Royal Air Force bomb store, DF [Direction Finding] masts and the Sharjah landing ground. It also shows the Imperial Airways alighti...
This blueprint sketch map shows the Qatar Peninsular, including: the oil wells area on the Western coast (where the camp of Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited was located); the track leading from there to Doha; the landing ground at Doha; the boundary between Qatar and Saudi Arabia; the Salwa...