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IOR/X/3700

Record Id:

040-004062661

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

036-002238108

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100138081854.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

IOR/X/3700

Title:

'Asia. Arabian Sea. Makran Coast'

Scope & Content:

Manuscript hydrographic chart covering parts of the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea along a 230-mile length of the Makran coast from Jashak Bay, Persia [Khalij-e Jask, Iran] eastwards to Karachi, British India [now in Pakistan]. Also includes the northern coast of the Arabian Peninsula extending forty miles east and west from Maskat [Muscat]. Portrays hydrology, including coastal sands, rocks and soundings, relief by spot heights and shading, settlements and place names.

Includes insets, at various larger scales, of: Jashak Bay; Chahbar Bay, Persia [Khalij-e Chah Bahar, Iran]; Gwatar Bay, Persia and British India [Iran and Pakistan]; and Gwadar Bay, British India [now in Pakistan]. Also includes seventeen cross sections at unstated scales through relief features on both the Makran and Arabian coasts.

Compiled from the surveys of the following officers of the late Indian Navy: Captains George Barnes Brucks, Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Thomas Gere Carless, Albany Moore Grieve, Charles Golding Constable and Arthur Whatley Chitty. The principal points astronomically corrected and additions made by Lieutenant Arthur William Stiffe, formerly of the Indian Navy.

Collection Area:

Map Collections

Project / Collection:

India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002238107
036-002238108
040-004062661

Is part of:

IOR/X : India Office reference collection of maps
IOR/X/1-4999 : Maps described in the 1878 published catalogue

IOR/X/3700 : Asia. Arabian Sea. Makran Coast

Hierarchy:

032-002238107[0001]/036-002238108[0206]/040-004062661

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/X

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 map sheet

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1873

End Date:

1875

Date Range:

1874?

Era:

Scale:

Scale approximately 1:332,000

Scale Designator:

Horizontal

Coordinates (Decimal):

57.5000,22.0833,67.0000,26.5833

Coordinates (Degree):

E 57°30’0”-E 67°0’0”/N 26°35’0”-N 22°5’0”

Orientation:

North

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Manuscript; coloured ink on tracing paper, mounted on paper backed with linen

Dimensions: 665 x 1140mm, on sheet 681 x 1150mm

Former External References:

U.VI.54

Material Type:

Maps and Plans

Legal Status:

Public Record(s)

Names:

Bombay Marine, 1863-1877
Brucks, George Edward, naval officer and surveyor, d 1850
Haines, Stafford Bettesworth, political officer, 1802-1860
Stiffe, Arthur William, naval officer, 1831-1912

Places:

Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean
Gulf of Oman, Asia
Makran Coast, Asia
Maskat, Arabian Peninsula, Asia