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1. IOR/R/15/2/465, f 180

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/465, f 180
Title:
Map indicating frontiers of south-eastern Saudi Arabia
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies a printed confidential memorandum entitled ‘The South-Eastern Frontiers of Saudi Arabia [with maps]’, produced by the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office, dated 30 June 1940. It shows the eastern half of the Arabian Peninsula, dominated by the ‘Ruba-Al-Khali’ [Rub’ al Kh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940
Extent:
1 map

2. IOR/R/15/2/465, f 179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/465, f 179
Title:
Map indicating boundary lines between Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies a printed confidential memorandum entitled ‘The South-Eastern Frontiers of Saudi Arabia [with maps]’, produced by the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office, dated 30 June 1940. It shows the southern half of the Qatar Peninsula and the adjoining mainland, and indicates nume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940
Extent:

1 map

3. IOR/R/15/2/465, f 169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/465, f 169
Title:
‘Sketch illustrating S.E. frontier of Saudi Arabia’
Scope & Content:
The map is a facsimile of a sketch map showing the eastern half of the Arabian peninsula, and indicating: with a solid line, the boundary claimed by Saudi Arabia; in a short-dashed black line, the Ottoman (Turkish) boundary (1913-14); and in a long-dashed line, the boundary offered by the British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948
Extent:
1 facsimile sketch map

4. IOR/R/15/2/465, f 111a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/465, f 111a
Title:
Sketch map indicating the Petroleum Concessions Limited concession boundary and the route taken by an Arabian-American Oil Company survey party
Scope & Content:
The sketch map accompanies a letter sent by Basil Henry le Riolet Lermitte of Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) to the Political Agent at Bahrain, dated 7 March 1949 (f 104), which relates to an incident in which an Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) survey party travelled into PCL’s conces...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 sketch map

5. IOR/R/15/2/465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/465
Title:
'11/5 Negotiations with Ibn Saud regarding Boundaries of Saudi Arabia'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, memoranda, maps, and other papers relating to questions over the position of Saudi Arabia’s south-eastern frontier adjoining Qatar and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, notably Abu Dhabi. Negotiations over the frontier had long been deferred by British Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1944-4 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)