The chart shows the outer bar of the Shatt Al Arab to Fao on the Persian Gulf. The state of the Low Water Line ‘at various recent dates from reliable surveys’ are indicated by the following coloured lines: red, 1929; green, 1925; yellow, 1918-19; and blue, 1917. Depths in feet indicated with sou...
Cutting from Admiralty Chart No. 1235 Showing the Mouth of Shatt al-Arab
Scope & Content:
The section of Admiralty chart number 1235 shows the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab on the Persian Gulf, with the frontier line between Iraq and Persia shown with a dashed line in pink pen. Depths are indicated with soundings, and the chart includes brief descriptions of topography. Scale not given.
Cutting from Admiralty Chart No. 1235 Showing the Abadan and Abdullah Banks at the Mouth of the Shatt al-Arab
Scope & Content:
The chart section from Admiralty chart number 1235 shows the Abadan and Abdullah Banks at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab on the Persian Gulf, with the low water line of the Abdullah Bank as determined in 1929 marked with a red line, and the low water line of the Abadan Bank as determined in 1929...
Photocopy of Part of a Map Showing the Mouth of the Shatt al-Arab
Scope & Content:
This photocopy of part of a map shows the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab on the Persian Gulf. It is labelled ‘Copy of part of map forwarded with Foreign Office letter N.B. The copy is not to the same scale as the map. Hydrographic Department Admiralty 22nd Jan[uar]y 1929.’ Scale not given.
File 4480/1923 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Ownership of the Shatt-el-Arab’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the right of navigation in the Shatt-el-Arab (also referred to as the Shatt-al-Arab). It includes correspondence relating to the following: the alignment of the Perso-Iraq frontier at the mouth of the Shatt-al-Arab; the right of Persian [Iranian] vessels ...
