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Egypt. 'Map of Beheira Desert & Wadi [el] Natrun [i.e. the Natron Lakes]': showing...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/659
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This record is about the Egypt. 'Map of Beheira Desert & Wadi [el] Natrun [i.e. the Natron Lakes]': showing... dating from 1907 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MR 1/659
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1907
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Description (What the record is about)
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Egypt. 'Map of Beheira Desert & Wadi [el] Natrun [i.e. the Natron Lakes]': showing oases, routes and nature of the terrain. Reference table to conventional signs. By Lieutenant S J Burton and W StA Warde-Aldam, Coldstream Guards, November-December 1907. The following are affixed to the face of the map: (i) two typescript sheets of notes on the water supply, the cultivations of the country, animals, natural features, and railway and other routes; (ii) twelve photographs of houses, a factory, railway engines and rolling stock, and bridges.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/1065
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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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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 151 cm x 148 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:47520
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- MS, coloured
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 610
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4559686/
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