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IOR/X/3251
- Record Id:
- 040-002431704
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002238108
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000010760.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023421182.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/X/3251
- Title:
- ‘Sketch of the Peninsula or Cape of Aden’
- Scope & Content:
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Distinctive Features:
Relief shown by contours.
Depth shown by a single line of soundings from Long Island to Hedjuf in Western Bay.
Outline plan of Aden peninsula showing positions of European, Sepoy and Officers Lines, Ordnance Magazine building, Custom House and Southern Gate. Existing roads coloured in orange. Additions in pencil include four circles with a 1250 yards radius from the Conical Hill on the Munsooree heights, batteries in Ras Tarshayn and Ras Morbut, and Flint Island.
Inscriptions:
On recto, bottom left-hand corner:
‘Copied in the Chief Engrs. Office Bombay 26th September 1846’.
On verso, bottom left-hand corner with bleed-through into the recto:
‘In Bombay Secret Lre. No. 113 of 1846 Recd. via Southampton 10th Novr. 1846 Aden Fortifications’.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002238107
036-002238108
040-002431704 - Is part of:
- IOR/X : India Office reference collection of maps
IOR/X/1-4999 : Maps described in the 1878 published catalogue
IOR/X/3251 : ‘Sketch of the Peninsula or Cape of Aden’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-002238107[0001]/036-002238108[0168]/040-002431704
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 map
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000010760.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1846
- End Date:
- 1846
- Date Range:
- 1846
- Era:
- CE
- Scale:
- Scale not given
- Scale Designator:
- Horizontal
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 44.96629,12.748999,45.059725,12.815389
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 44°57’59”-E 45°3’35”/N 12°48’55”-N 12°44’56”
- Orientation:
- North
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials:
Pen and ink with wash on tracing paper with additions in pencil
Dimensions:
699 x 1040 mm
- Former External References:
- M.IX.21
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)