'MAP OF SOUTH WESTERN ARABIA'
IOR/X/3223
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The record is made up of 1 map sheet. It was created in 1874. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Map Collections.
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Imprint:
Lithographed A lithograph is an image reproduced from a printing plate whose image areas attract ink and non-image areas repel it. at the Topographical Depôt, Horse Guards, War Office. Major C. W. Wilson, R. E. director.
Distinctive Features:
Relief shown by shading.
The map shows routes of various travellers from 1762 to 1873 with a list of explorers and dates of their journeys in the bottom right-hand corner below title. The location of tribes with their boundaries indicated by pecked or dotted lines.
- Extent and format
- 1 map sheet
- Area map covers
- Map loading...
- Scale
- approximately 1:633,600
- Scale designator
- Horizontal
- Orientation
- North
- Degree coordinates
- Top-left: 15° 30' 41.4" N, 42° 0' 1.8" E
Top-right: 15° 30' 41.4" N, 47° 0' 14.4" E
Bottom-left: 12° 30' 27.72" N, 42° 0' 1.8" E
Bottom-right: 12° 30' 27.72" N, 47° 0' 14.4" E - Physical characteristics
Dimensions: 533 x 855 mm, on sheet 609 x 889 mm
- Written in
- English in Latin script
- Type
- Map
Archive information for this record
- Original held at
- British Library: Map Collections
- Access conditions
Unrestricted
- Archive reference
- IOR/X/3223
- Former external reference(s)
- M.VIII.54
- Date(s)
- 1874 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Yemen
- People & organisations
- Charles William Wilson
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'MAP OF SOUTH WESTERN ARABIA', British Library: Map Collections, IOR/X/3223, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100000006861.0x000001> [accessed 6 October 2024]
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- IOR/X/3223
- Title
- 'MAP OF SOUTH WESTERN ARABIA'
- Pages
- 1r:1v
- Author
- Please see item description
- Usage terms
- Public Domain
