'ROUGH PLAN OF FORE SHORE OF BUSAITEEN IN MOHARRAK ISLAND'
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Imprint: 'Prepared in the Land Department Baharain [Bahrain]'. Distinctive features: Area that it was proposed should be acquired for the Bahrain Political Residency shown edged in red crayon (see IOR/R/15/2/154, folio 144). Locations mentioned in title usually referred to file as Bisaitin,...
Tracing of parts of Admiralty chart 2837.B. showing tracks and positions in the course of an aerial reconnaissance of the Qatar Peninsula on 11 October 1935 by Squadron Leader J H Dand, Air Headquarters, British Forces in Iraq, Hinaidi. There is a report on the reconnaissance at IOR/R/15/2/159, ...
Map indicating boundary lines between Saudi Arabia and Qatar
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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...
'India & Burma Region - Bahrein, Manama Town showing B.O.A.C. messes, Airways House, etc.'
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A blueprint map of Manama, Bahrain (also written Bahrein), showing the ownership and use of numerous buildings and plots. Those belonging to or leased by British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) are shaded red. There is a map legend and an index. The plan is marked as 'Drawing No. I. B. F. 8...
‘Sketch of camp 1 mile south of MANAMAH (BAHRAIN ISLAND)’
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The map is a hand drawn copy made through carbon paper, with some additional handwritten pencil annotations. It shows twelve camps (numbered 1-12), indicated as squares on the map, with a key identifying each camp (allocated to various regiments of Indian Expeditionary Force D) to the right of th...
The map, drawn in pencil with red pen annotations, indicates proposed campsites (labelled A, B and C) for regiments of Indian Expeditionary Force D, outside of Manama town in Bahrain. The map indicates: principal buildings and thoroughfares in Manama and its vicinity (including the Political Age...
The map, drawn in pencil with red pen annotations, indicates proposed campsites (labelled A, B and C) for regiments of Indian Expeditionary Force D, outside of Manama town in Bahrain. The map indicates: principal buildings and thoroughfares in Manama and its vicinity (including the Political Age...
Sketch of Doha and the proposed site of Decca station
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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...
Map indicating the SS Begum’s touching of the Rennie Shoals [Mushţ Rinnī]
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The map accompanies explanatory notes in the file (f 33) dated 9 April 1933, and indicates the intended and actual courses of the SS Begum, with nautical measurements, leading up to its touching of the Rennie Shoals [Mushţ Rinnī] in the Persian Gulf, approximately fifty miles north of Bahrain. T...