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Eastern Europe: River Danube. 'Delta of the Danube': map of the coast between Lake...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/485/77
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This record is about the Eastern Europe: River Danube. 'Delta of the Danube': map of the coast between Lake... dating from 1862-[1876] 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)
- MPK 1/485/77
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1862-[1876]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Eastern Europe: River Danube. 'Delta of the Danube': map of the coast between Lake Kunduk (now Lake Sasyk, Ukraine) and Lake Razelm (now in Romania), and inland as far as Braila (now in Romania). Scale: 1 inch to 4 nautical miles. Compass star. Drawn by C A Hartley; lithographed by Kell Brothers, Castle Street, Holborn. Inset: Black Sea, showing distances between its main ports; in the right margin are maps of the mouths of the rivers Kiliya, Sulina and St George's (now Sfantu Gheorghe); scale: 4.3 inches to 10 nautical miles [1:169,674]. MS additions, coloured, showing points where guns could be placed behind earthworks on the north bank, and access roads. Originally 'Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers', 1861-1862: volume XXI, plate 5; subsequently accompanied a minute from Colonel J Stokes, Royal Engineers, to Sir Lintorn Simmons, 12 November 1876.
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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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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 46 cm x 52 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:291840
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Lithographed
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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: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 3992.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8971420/
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