Extract of a map showing the boundary between Iran and Baluchistan, in present-day Pakistan. The map indicates: hydrology; topography, with form lines; settlements; roads; the Iran-Baluchistan boundary. Two arrows drawn in red pencil have been added to the map. The annotation ‘Gwattur Bay’ has al...
Sketch map of the frontier between Persia, Baluchistan and Afghanistan
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Sketch map of the border between Persia [Iran], Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan] and Afghanistan. The border is drawn as a solid black line. Annotations along the border are drawn in red ink. The boundary of the Khanate of Kalat is marked as a dashed black line. A note in the bottom right c...
Map of northern Iran showing the location of the Kavir-i-Khourian [Dasht-e Kavīr] oil concession. The map indicates: topography; hydrology, including salt water lakes; salt desert; human settlements, including Tehran, Samnan [Semnān] and Kashan; roads; railways; airfields and landing grounds. The...
Printed map with hand drawn additions. The map has two subtitles at its top: ‘Afghānistan, Baluchistān & Persia’ and ‘Sheet No. 30 Sīstān’, and is also labelled ‘Map No. 1, 2nd Edition (1928)’. It was published under the direction of Colonel Sir Sidney Gerald Burard, Surveyor General of Indi...
‘In the Kavir-i-Khourian Field. the western well in the background.’
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Photograph of the Kavir-i-Khourian [Dasht-e Kavīr] oil field in northern Iran. The photograph, which was taken from the inside of a motorcar, shows a flat desert landscape with a single wellhead in the middle distance.
Map of Mirjáwa [Mīrjāveh] and surroundings. The map indicates: hydrology; topography, with some indication of relief; cultivated areas; irrigation channels and surface drainage; the positions of the old and new British posts; the position of the ruins of the old village of Mirjáwa. The map is si...
‘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.
Blueprint map of a section of the Iran-Baluchistan border
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Map of a section of the border between Iran and Baluchistan (part of present-day Pakistan) around Kastag [Kastak]. The map is enclosed with reports and statements prepared by the Political Agent at Kalat in 1935 (ff 67-84), relating to an incident in which Iranian customs officials raided a shop ...
‘Ahwaz rapids. Longl. Section of main line of rocks’
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The plan is labelled ‘Plan No 5’ and marked confidential. It shows longitudinal sections of the rapids of the river Karun [Rūd-e Kārūn] at Ahwaz [Ahvāz]. The horizontal scale is marked as 1:2500. The vertical scale is marked as 1:100.