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1 item (formerly enclosed with a memorandum from the Admiralty to the Foreign Office,...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/1276
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This record is about the 1 item (formerly enclosed with a memorandum from the Admiralty to the Foreign Office,... dating from 1837-1923 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MFQ 1/1276
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1837-1923
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (formerly enclosed with a memorandum from the Admiralty to the Foreign Office, 10 August 1927) extracted from FO 135/240. Colombia: Isla de Providencia. 'Old Providence Island and Coral Bank': chart showing the coastline, soundings, hills, and settlements. Scale: 1 inch to 0.88 miles. Compass rose. Surveyed by Messrs J Cannon, G B Lawrence, and F W Sidney, in HMS Thunder, 1835; [?]engraved 1840; [?]revised to 1923. Insets: coastal elevations; map of Catalina harbour, scale: 1;18,150. Originally produced to show the nature of the 'Old Providence' coral reef, in relation to a disputed Colombian claim to territorial waters.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Map designation (Identifying numbers or names given to printed maps by their publishers)
- Admiralty Chart 1334
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 60 cm x 45.5 cm
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3984297/
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