Map showing Persia and the Persian Gulf. The map shows cities, roads, and hydrology, and highlights the scale of Russian trade and British trade. There are some boundaries traced by hand: in yellow the boundary suggested in Sistan, and in blue the border preferred by Kerman.
The map shows the area of Southern Iraq around Zubair and Basra. The map indicates hydrology (of the Euphrates River), settlements, roads, vegetation and provides some indication of relief. Published by the General Staff India under the direction of Colonel Sir S G Burrard, KCSI, RE, FRS, Surv...
BAHREIN. SITE of POSSIBLE NAVAL BASE. (From Admty Chart No. 3540).
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The map shows part of Bahrein [Bahrain] Island including al Menama [Manama] and Muharrak [Muharraq]. Inscribed 'N.S.(P.D.) April 1937'. A note states that 'The area enclosed by the dotted line is Government land'. The map includes manuscript annotations in red ink signed by JGL [John Gilbert Lait...
PROPOSED RESERVATION FOR REFINERY, WATER WELLS AND LINES, TO SITRA.
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Blueprint sketch map produced by the Bahrain Petroleum Company, depicting the proposed reservation of land for the refinery at Sitra [Sitrah], Bahrain. Enclosed with a letter no. C/504-10/1 (folio 17). Shows the refinery reservation covering 300 acres, and indicates the location of the triangul...
The map shows the reservation for the crude oil pipeline (marked in red) of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), beginning at a point in the high tide north of the village of Jasra, and terminating at the boundary of the company's reservation GR/1A. A legend indicates roads, gardens (approxima...
The map sheet is one of five maps included in IOR/L/PS/20/C104/1, published in ‘Seistan [Sistan]. A Memoir on the History, Topography, Ruins and People of the Country. In four parts. Parts I to III’, (Calcutta [Kolkata]: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1910) by George Passman Tate. Th...
'ASIA. PERSIAN GULF. COMPILED BY COMMR. C.G. CONSTABLE AND LIEUT. A.W. STIFFE, I.N. 1860'
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Admiralty Hydrographic Office chart showing the principal points, islands, and landmarks of the (eastern) Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, compiled by Commander C G Constable and Lieutenant Arthur William Stiffe in 1860, with intervening coast and soundings supplied from the surveys of Captain J M...
‘Ahwaz irrigation scheme. Longitudinal section of main channel’
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The plan is labelled ‘Plan No 15’ and marked confidential. The horizontal scale of the plan is 2 inches to 1 mile (1:31,680). The vertical scale is 1:100. The plan is signed by Major W R Morton, Royal Engineers, on Special Duty in Arabistan, and dated 27 June 1905.
Coloured line drawn map of Guttur [Qatar], Lahsa [al-Hasa], and Bahrain, in relation to the Persian Gulf coast. Indications for a key, scale, or orientation are not included.