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Norway: Finnmark: two maps. (1) 'Ethnografisk Kart over Finmarkens Amt ... af J.A....

Catalogue reference: FO 925/4005

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Reference
FO 925/4005
Date
1888-1889
Description

Norway: Finnmark: two maps. (1) 'Ethnografisk Kart over Finmarkens Amt ... af J.A. Friis Professor ved Universitetet i Christiania. Udgivet paa offentlig Bekostning 1888': (title on three sheets only). Inset extensions beyond areas shown on main map. Shows ecclesiastical districts. Ethnographical table on sheet 3; manuscript English translations. No scale shown. Four sheets, each 48 cm x 69 cm. (2) 'Russisk Lapland': map showing ethnic, linguistic and residential characteristics of the population; statistics; boundaries and frontiers; forests, roads, fisheries and summer encampments; churches and chapels, doctors' surgeries, schools, courts, post-offices, telephone and telegraph stations. Lapp-Norwegian glossary; manuscript English translations. Scale bars in Norse miles, geographical miles and kilometres. Two sheets, each 48 cm x 69 cm. [?Printed] at Norges geografiske Opmaaling. [?1888]. Enclosed, together with 'Notes on Finmarken by Professor J.A. Friis, Christiana', in Consul-General Michell's Political despatch number 20, November 1889 (see FO 73/533).

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Map scale
1:200000
Physical condition
(1) Printed, with coloured manuscript additions;(2) lithographed, with coloured MS additions.
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Administrative / biographical background
Publication note(s)
Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 3675.
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3820364/

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