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Admiralty chart [2214]: 'The Euxine or Black Sea from the Russian survey of 1836'....
Catalogue reference: FO 925/3361
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This record is about the Admiralty chart [2214]: 'The Euxine or Black Sea from the Russian survey of 1836'.... dating from 1836-1878 in the series Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 925/3361
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1836-1878
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Admiralty chart [2214]: 'The Euxine or Black Sea from the Russian survey of 1836'. Map also shows the Sea of Azov, Sea of Marmora and the Crimea. Scale: 1 inch to 20 sea miles. Inset view of the Bosporus (printed upside down). Key to fathom lines and abbreviations. with darker hill-shading, and inset restored and printed the right way up. View of Bosporus drawn by Commander Brock. Engraved by J and C Walker. Published at the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 20 Sept 1853.Additions to 1857. Compass variation 1871. Corrections June 1872. Minor corrections 1872-1876.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 1:1459200
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- Engraved
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 5080.
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