The map complements IOR/W/L/PS/10/457 (i) 'ASIA. PERSIAN GULF. COMPILED BY COMMR. C.G. CONSTABLE AND LIEUT. A.W. STIFFE, I.N. 1860', and is an Admiralty Hydrographic Office chart showing the principal points, islands, and landmarks of the western Persian Gulf, compiled by Commander C G Constable...
Chart Showing THE BANKS FISHED FROM MARICHCHUKADDI.
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies the Report on the Ceylon Pearl Fisheries by Sir William Crofton Twynam, Superintendent of the Fisheries from 1862 to 1896 (Colombo, 1902). The map appears between pages 60 and 61 of the appendices to the report. The map shows an area to the south of Mannar Island. The map sh...
'ASIA. PERSIAN GULF. COMPILED BY COMMR. C.G. CONSTABLE AND LIEUT. A.W. STIFFE, I.N. 1860'
Scope & Content:
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...
File 2830/1914 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf: Pearl Fisheries. Investigation into Alleged Depletion of Pearl Banks. Germans and the Industry. Concessions, etc.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns pearl fishing in the Persian Gulf; in particular attempted incursions into the trade by the French, Germans, and others; the political and economic interests of the British in pearl fishing; investigations into reports of the depletion of the pearl fishing banks in the Gulf; ...
