Map, Contour, Salum - Tobruch - Tobruk

Maker
British War Office
514 Corps Army Field Survey Coy
512 Field Survey Coy
Production date
Sep 1941
Oct 1941

Object detail

Brief Description
Map, Contour, Salum - Tobruch - Tobruk. 1:250,000. Libya.
Egypt & Cyrenaica - W D R 1006/2579.
Contour map of the Tobruch, Bardia, Sum and Ridotta Maddalena area.
Showing railways, roads - main and secondary, rivers, wire defences, hill features, Sheikh's tombs with buildings, contour lines, topographical features, marshes, salt lagoons and trigonometric points.
Most of the interior land has tracks unfit for wheeled traffic. Palisade, wire can be seen stretching from Bardia, Salum to Ridotta Maddalena. The main road stretches from Bardia to Tobruch.
The Mediterranean Sea is noted to the North.
Production date
Sep 1941
Oct 1941
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Printed on paper back with linen, with black and colored inks.
Measurements
Height x Width: 645 x 895mm
Subject date
Sep 1941
Oct 1941
Credit line
gifted by J G Gilberd
Other number(s)
m65/36, 71876

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