Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Roads indicated by pecked lines. Shows Qatar and Bahrain. The Southern border of Qatar is indicated by a thick pecked line. Enclosed is a letter on the question of the southern limit of the Qatar Oil Concession sent by L. Lefroy at Britannic Hou...
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Roads indicated by pecked lines. Shows Qatar and Bahrain. The southern border of Qatar is indicated by a thick pecked line. Copy of the map enclosed to a letter on the question of the Southern limit of the Qatar Oil Concession sent by L. Lefroy...
Rough Tracing Showing Approach to P.D. (Q.) Jetty at Dohat ez Zekrit. (QATAR)
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Reliefs shown by hachures. Shows the Jebel Dukhan promontory, Dohat et Zehrit, the surrounding shoals and water depth. Inscriptions: Descriptive notes on recto: Below the title: 'Soundings in feet corrected to lowest tide level observed to date 16/1/38.'
Rough Tracing Showing Approach to P.D. (Q.) Jetty at Dohat ez Zekrit. (QATAR)
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Reliefs shown by hachures. Shows the approaches to the Petroleum Development Jetty at Zekrit, in the Dohat of Zekrit; it also shows the Jebel Dukhan promontory and the surrounding shoals and water depth. Inscriptions: Descriptive notes on recto: Below the title: 'Sound...
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Shows leased off shore areas between the Eastern coast of Bahrain and the Western coast of Qatar, indicated by red ink line. Inscriptions: 'Leased area no. 1' and 'Leased area no. 2'
Sketch of Doha and the proposed site of Decca station
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Shows Doha and the nearby area, including the proposed site of Decca station. Enclosed is a letter from the General Manager of Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited requesting to the Sheikh of Qatar the lease of the land for an electronic survey Station, on 22 May 1949 (IOR/R...
Sketch map indicating the Petroleum Concessions Limited concession boundary and the route taken by an Arabian-American Oil Company survey party
Scope & Content:
The sketch map accompanies a letter sent by Basil Henry le Riolet Lermitte of Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) to the Political Agent at Bahrain, dated 7 March 1949 (f 104), which relates to an incident in which an Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) survey party travelled into PCL’s conces...
‘Sketch illustrating S.E. frontier of Saudi Arabia’
Scope & Content:
The map is a facsimile of a sketch map showing the eastern half of the Arabian peninsula, and indicating: with a solid line, the boundary claimed by Saudi Arabia; in a short-dashed black line, the Ottoman (Turkish) boundary (1913-14); and in a long-dashed line, the boundary offered by the British...
Map indicating boundary lines between Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies a printed confidential memorandum entitled ‘The South-Eastern Frontiers of Saudi Arabia [with maps]’, produced by the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office, dated 30 June 1940. It shows the southern half of the Qatar Peninsula and the adjoining mainland, and indicates nume...