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Aden Protectorate 1914
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Map Description
Old map of Aden, Yemen.
94 and 1901-4. It shows details such as mountains, wadis, settlements, and tribal boundaries, transportation and communications links, and topographic features. The survey work for the map was directed by Lieutenant Colonel F.B. Longe, then surveyor general of India. It was published under his successor, Colonel Sir Sidney Burrard, by the Survey of India. The map has a number of curious features and many of the markings are ambiguous. It is odd that the port of Aden and its rival strategic harbor Perim (Jazirat Mayyun) are so sketchily displayed given their importance as coaling stations for the British Navy and merchant shipping. There is a minimal key and a distance scale in miles; relief is shown by hachures and spot elevations marked in feet. The map gives the height of Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb as 8,588 feet, while the mountain actually rises to 3,670 meters (over 12,000 feet). The map shows the serpentine, often indistinct, Anglo-Ottoman border existing at the outbreak of World War I. A note indicates the adjoining sheets in the series of Southwest Asia maps. The port of Aden and the numerous sheikhdoms of the hinterland became British possessions by treaty beginning in the late 1830s, and eventually became the territory under British Indian administration known as the Aden Protectorate. The map was printed at the Survey of India facility in Calcutta by the technique known as heliozincography, a photographic process using zinc plates that was developed in Britain and that enabled accurate reproduction of images and text.
Created by Sidney Gerald Burrard, F.B. Longe, Survey of India in 1914.
94 and 1901-4. It shows details such as mountains, wadis, settlements, and tribal boundaries, transportation and communications links, and topographic features. The survey work for the map was directed by Lieutenant Colonel F.B. Longe, then surveyor general of India. It was published under his successor, Colonel Sir Sidney Burrard, by the Survey of India. The map has a number of curious features and many of the markings are ambiguous. It is odd that the port of Aden and its rival strategic harbor Perim (Jazirat Mayyun) are so sketchily displayed given their importance as coaling stations for the British Navy and merchant shipping. There is a minimal key and a distance scale in miles; relief is shown by hachures and spot elevations marked in feet. The map gives the height of Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb as 8,588 feet, while the mountain actually rises to 3,670 meters (over 12,000 feet). The map shows the serpentine, often indistinct, Anglo-Ottoman border existing at the outbreak of World War I. A note indicates the adjoining sheets in the series of Southwest Asia maps. The port of Aden and the numerous sheikhdoms of the hinterland became British possessions by treaty beginning in the late 1830s, and eventually became the territory under British Indian administration known as the Aden Protectorate. The map was printed at the Survey of India facility in Calcutta by the technique known as heliozincography, a photographic process using zinc plates that was developed in Britain and that enabled accurate reproduction of images and text.
Created by Sidney Gerald Burrard, F.B. Longe, Survey of India in 1914.
- Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- "Scale 1:253,440. 1 inch = 4 miles"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- Original resource extent: 1 map : color ; 66 x 105 centimeters.
- Original resource at: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
- Content in English.
- Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Map Tags
1891 To 1904
1914
Aden
Arabian Peninsula
Expeditions And Surveys
F.B. Longe
Map
Sidney Gerald Burrard
Survey Of India
World War
Yemen
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