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Map Indicating Routes of Navigation Around the Harbour of Zanzibar and the Surrounding Islands [1r] (1/2)
The record is made up of 1 map sheet. It was created in between 1795-1810. It was written in French. 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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Manuscript map used to illustrate routes of navigation around the harbour of Zanzibar [Zanzibar City] and the surrounding islands. The map indicates the coastline and coastal waters to a distance of two miles offshore, and portrays coastal and inland hydrography, vegetation, hachuring on coastal slopes, details of the fort and adjacent buildings of Zanzibar, and sandbanks, and includes topographical and navigational notes, depths by soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. , and coastal flows.
The map was enclosed in HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones’s Dispatch No. 25 of 14 September 1810, which was received on 6 February 1811.
- Extent and format
- 1 map sheet
- Area map covers
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- Scale
- Scale approximately 1:21,788
- Scale designator
- Horizontal
- Orientation
- West
- Degree coordinates
- Top-left: -7° 6' 37.28" S, 39° 7' 5.81" E
Top-right: -7° 6' 37.28" S, 39° 13' 45.02" E
Bottom-left: -7° 15' 24.42" S, 39° 7' 5.81" E
Bottom-right: -7° 15' 24.42" S, 39° 13' 45.02" E - Physical characteristics
Manuscript: ink on paper
Dimensions: 400 x 275mm, on sheet 400 x 311mm
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- French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/9/68/67
- Title
- Map Indicating Routes of Navigation Around the Harbour of Zanzibar and the Surrounding Islands
- Pages
- 1r:1r
- Author
- Unknown
- Usage terms
- Public Domain