The Delta of the Shatt al Arab and Proposals for Dredging the Bar (Reprinted from The Geographical Journal for March 1925)

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Original reprint in stitch-bound blue wraps with RGS logo and titles to the front 16 x 25cm. Printed by William Clowes, London and Beccle. pp225-239, including 3 maps on 1 page. Very good with foxing to the front, and lower corners slightly trimmed. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company had commissioned Rendel, Palmer and Tritton to build special dredgers to undertake the task to accommodate rapidly growing oil exports from Abadan. Wilson, who was employed by APOC and party to the engineers' plans, states the bar "has constituted an impediment to navigation from the earliest times" (p347). He assesses its evolving geography, critiquing descriptions by Pliny, Willcocks, Sykes, Philby, Chesney, De Thevenot, and others. He reviews proposals from 1910 when German engineers considered it as part of plans to adopt Basra as the terminus of the Baghdad Railway, to the present. He ends by highlighting the main challenges, and describes surveys from Brucks and Haines in 1827 ("the first detailed survey entirely lost sight of by all concerned") up to Buchanan's in 1917. The maps show changes to the Shatt al Arab and part of Abadan Island in 1827, 1890, and 1922, with channels, high and low water lines, fathom contours, and proposed channel. N° de ref. del artículo 4303

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