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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [119v] (243/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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158 COASTS OF THE
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
by a pontoon bridge. There is anchorage off the delta. South-east
of this gap the coastal plain is constricted by the Kuh-i-Darang group
of mountains, whose seaward edge is very steep; the coast trends
south-east for 12 miles to the highest point (4,078 ft.) and is fringed
Fig. 42. The Shibkuh Coast: Naband to Lingeh
by marsh; it then turns east for 17 miles to Daiyir, a small grain
exporting port with anchorage close off shore and an emergency
landing-ground. Kuh-i-Darang falls north-east to the Busaif plain,
drained by a small stream whose marshy valley opens to the sea
between Daiyir and Kangan, 9 miles east.
By this turn to the east round Kuh-i-Darang the coastline cuts
inland across the trend of the coastal mountains and approaches the
main ranges. From Kangan it runs south-east along the foot of
the most south-westerly of the main ranges for nearly 50 miles until
it cuts back at Naband bay. The mountains tower more than 4,800
feet above the sea, their highest peak reaching 7,060 feet. The coastal
plain is in places less than a mile wide, and contains small fishing-
villages and date-groves. Kangan was formerly a Portuguese trading-
port; it has a good roadstead with partly sheltered anchorage. Tahiri,
a village 21 miles south-east of Kangan, is on the site of the medieval
city of Siraf, which was the chief emporium of eastern trade in the
ninth and tenth centuries. The ruins extend 2 miles along the shore
west of Tahiri and up the slopes of a limestone ridge between the
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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