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'Map of Eastern Asia from Chinese Sources': map of the area between the Caspian Sea...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/657/16
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This record is about the 'Map of Eastern Asia from Chinese Sources': map of the area between the Caspian Sea... dating from 1881 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 1/657/16
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1881
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Description (What the record is about)
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'Map of Eastern Asia from Chinese Sources': map of the area between the Caspian Sea in the west, the Russian Kamchatka peninsula in the north-east, and the Chinese island of Formosa (now Taiwan) in the south-east; showing in detail: relief, rivers and lakes, routes, temples, place names and boundaries. Reference tables to the boundaries of China proper, the remainder of the Chinese Empire (Manchuria, Mongolia and Turkistan), areas formerly Chinese and now controlled by Russia, and areas under Chinese suzerainty (Korea and Tibet); to conventional signs; and to place name elements. Scale: 1 inch to 60 geographical miles. Drawn by C T Gardner, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, British Consul, Yichang, June 1881.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 124.5 cm x 184 cm
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- MS, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9442726/
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