Map of slave routes between Baluchistan and Trucial States
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Sketch map attached to a report related to the slave trade by Bertram Thomas dated 23 August 1929. Shows sea and land routes of the Mekran Traffic with ports labelled; routes are depicted in detail on pages 4-5 of the report (folios 247-248).
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Map is lettered for reference with a key and explanatory note provided in accompanying text (folio 34). The area over which a prospecting license is required by the Burmah Oil Company Limited is coloured pink. Shows the Agency House and Teleg...
Imprint: Copied by Mohommad Hashim H.E. the High Commissioner’s Office. Reproduced by Survey Directorate Baghdad, No.811, Dated 3-6-21. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Upper margin: 'Map attached to appendix III of H.E. the High Commissioiner’s dispatch No. C...
Distinctive Features: A photographic copy of ‘APPENDIX IV. MAP ENCLOSURE TO H.E. THE HIGH COMMISSIONER’S DESPATCH NO. C.O/120 DATED 9TH DECEMBER 1921’. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Existing and proposed boundaries, and Turco-Persian Frontier as delimited in 1914 shown in colour...
Distinctive Features: Outline map of the Qatar Peninsula copied from the British Admiralty Chart No. 2837b and enclosed with a copy of Report on the Air Reconnaissance carried out over Qatar on 11 October 1935 (folios 72-73). Classified ‘Secret’. Shows the reconnaissance route with direction ...
Imprint: A.H.Q. [Air Headquarters] Drawing Office Iraq. Drawn by Aprim Bet-Benjamin, Nov. 1935. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Map showing the Qatar Peninsula and central part of the Eastern Province Saudi Arabia. Numerous notations concerning terrain features cover the fa...
Distinctive Features: Hand drawn sketch map showing Dawḩat Salwá and area west of Salwa, attached to a letter No. C/38-1.a/38 dated 25 January 1936, to illustrate a dispute concerning Saudi-Qatar boundary.
Sketch map showing area north of Qasr es Salwa, Qatar
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Tracing of a rough sketch map based on observations made on 4th March 1937, showing area north of Qasr es Salwa in Qatar with landmarks lettered for reference. Includes corresponding elevation profile in the lower portion of sheet. Signed and ...
'MAP SHOWING SELECTION BY THE BAHREIN PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED UNDER CONCESSION DATED DECEMBER 2ND 1925'
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The second schedule to the lease dated 29 December 1934 made between the Sheikh of Bahrein and the Bahrain Petroleum Company showing the area selected by the Bahrain Petroleum Company under their concession agreement with the Government of Bahrain signed 2 December 1925. The map includes a parag...
Map showing Bahrain, its territorial waters and surrounding coastlines. An area is marked on the map using red lines which connect points labelled A, B, C, and D; this outlined area is to be granted to the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) under the alloted area concession. Map enlarged in the ...