British Admiralty Chart No. 38 Arabian Sea - Muscat to Karachi; Gwatar Bay

Hydrographic Office; Captains G.B Brooks; S.B. Haines; T.G. Carless; A. Grieve; C.G. Constable; A.W. Chitty; and Lieutenant A.W. Stiffe

Published by British Admiralty, London, 1974

About this Item

B/w chart with red hand colouring 114x71cm. Very good, folded with some annotation. First published on 31 Dec 1874, the latest edition stated is 11 June 1965, with small corrections up to 1974. The main map, natural scale 1:900,000, shows the Omani coast from the Daimaniyat Islands to Ras al Junaiz, with Matruh, Muscat, Ras al Hadd etc labelled, and the Iranian-Pakistani side from Jask to Karachi, with views and elevations of several Jebels, and main roads and caravan routes shown by continuous lines. A smaller map shows Gwatar (Jiwani) Bay on a larger scale. The ms annotations mark the location of a "Submarine Exercise Area" below Gwadar, and another below Pasni, with annotations dated 1988-90 in the line of "small corrections" to the lower edge, also flagging that a new edition of this map appeared in 1992. Seller Inventory # 5248

Bibliographic Details

Title: British Admiralty Chart No. 38 Arabian Sea -...

Publisher: British Admiralty, London

Publication Date: 1974

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Good