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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3270, f 103
Title:: ‘EUPHRATES RIVER NASIRIYAH to BEDAIRI’
Scope & Content:: The map shows a section of the Euphrates river from Bedairi [Al Budayri] in the west to Nasiriyah in the east. The map indicates hydrology, settlements, and types of buildings. It also contains brief descriptions of vegetation, and provides some indication of relief. The names of towns and villa...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c Feb 1917
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3283, f 235
Title:: ‘MOHAMMERAH BAR’
Scope & Content:: The map shows soundings and some buildings on shore at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]. It is part of George Buchanan’s report on the conservancy of the Shatt-el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] of 20 June 1917.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Jun 1917
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3283, f 236
Title:: ‘RIVER SHATT-AL-ARAB PORT OF BASRA’
Scope & Content:: The map shows soundings and proposed new port works for Basra. The survey was conducted by Captain O’Brien and Lieutenant Kilford under the direction of Brigadier-General Sir George Buchanan. It is part of George Buchanan’s report on the conservancy of the Shatt-el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] of 20 June...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Jun 1917
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3283, f 237
Title:: ‘MOUTH OF THE SHATT AL ARAB RIVER’
Scope & Content:: The map shows soundings and a proposed half tide training wall. It is reduced from the survey by Lieutenants Melhuish and Milne-Henderson (July to October 1916), with a resurvey of the outer bar by Lieutenants Maundrell and Sanderson (April 1917). It is part of George Buchanan’s report on the con...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Jun 1917
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3283, f 238
Title:: ‘SHATT-AL-ARAB OUTER BAR’
Scope & Content:: The map shows soundings and a proposed dredged channel, but no land features. The co-ordinates are approximate. It is referred to in George Buchanan’s report on the conservancy of the Shatt-el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] of 20 June 1917.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Jun 1917
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3283, f 239
Title:: ‘PLAN showing Principal Ports in Persian Gulf with Town & Trade Routes served by each’
Scope & Content:: The map shows railways, political borders, towns, population sizes, and British and Russian spheres of influence. It is part of George Buchanan’s report on the conservancy of the Shatt-el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] of 20 June 1917.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Jun 1917
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3283, f 240
Title:: ‘PERSIAN GULF APPROACHES TO SHATT-AL-ARAB AND BAHMISHIR RIVERS NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 1890’
Scope & Content:: The map shows soundings, contours, mud banks, buoys, settlements, and comments on the type of ground. The co-ordinates are approximate. It is referred to in George Buchanan’s report of 20 June 1917.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Jun 1917
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3283, f 241
Title:: ‘MOUTH OF THE SHATT AL ARAB RIVER’
Scope & Content:: The map shows soundings, contours and the correct position of channel buoys in April 1911. The co-ordinates are approximate. It is part of George Buchanan’s report on the conservancy of the Shatt-el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] of 20 June 1917.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Jun 1917
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3283, f 242
Title:: ‘MOUTH OF THE SHATT AL ARAB RIVER Plan showing existing & proposed lighted buoys’
Scope & Content:: The map shows details of the mouth of the Shatt al Arab, including Fao [Faw], forts on land, settlements, and a line of proposed and actual buoys in the bay. It is part of George Buchanan’s report on the conservancy of the Shatt-el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] of 20 June 1917.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Jun 1917
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3283, f 243
Title:: ‘Shatt al Arab Longitudinal section of channel from Fao to beyond Outer Bar in 1890, 1911 & 1916 respectively’
Scope & Content:: The vertical scale is 1:24. The map shows the height of the river bed of the Shatt al Arab from Fao [Al-Faw] to 18 miles below Fao, at the edge of the outer bar where the channel drops into the Persian Gulf. It is part of George Buchanan’s report on the conservancy of the Shatt-el-Arab [Shatt al-...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Jun 1917
Extent:: 1 map sheet

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