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Admiralty chart 6B. 'Chart of the Gulf of Aden, surveyed by Captains Haines and Harless,...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/687
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This record is about the Admiralty chart 6B. 'Chart of the Gulf of Aden, surveyed by Captains Haines and Harless,... dating from 1847-1881 in the series Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 925/687
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1847-1881
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Admiralty chart 6B. 'Chart of the Gulf of Aden, surveyed by Captains Haines and Harless, Lieuts [Lieutenants] Barker and Grieve, Indian Navy. Sheet 2nd 1847'. The chart has writing in Arabic, perhaps place names. Scale: 1 inch to about 10 sea miles. Compass roses. Engraved by J and C Walker. Originally published by John Walker, Geographer to the East India Company, 15 April 1853. Corrected by the Admiralty to January 1881.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Arabic and English
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- 60 cm x 94 cm
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- Engraved
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 2425
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3817272/
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