Blueprint showing position of pearl banks on Trucial Coast
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Distinctive Features: Each of the pearl banks marked with a number. Shores not covered by water at low tide indicated by dotted lines. Includes a key which lists the names of the 110 numbered pearl banks in transliterated English. Above neat line at the bottom left-hand corner and centre illegible d...
Imprint: ‘Batliboi Litho Works, Bombay 8’. Distinctive Features: Pearl banks indicated by Arabic numerals, the names of topographic features including settlements, islands and pearl beds inserted in Arabic. In the lower right-hand corner of the sheet a descriptive note from the author, this starts a...
The Pearl Fisheries subject file contains correspondence and other papers relating to British concerns over the admission of foreign vessels into the Persian Gulf to fish on the pearling banks. At the front of the file are a number of fold-out maps (folios, 3, 5, 11 and 13) showing the locations of ...
