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Highlands of Tibet and Surrounding Regions
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English: A twentieth century masterpiece for the region. This large wall map spans from the Kabul, Delhi and Lucknow, reaching eastward beyond the Mekong, and expanding up beyond the Himalayas to Tashkent, Urumchi and the Gobi desert. With color defining the great sweeping change of elevation that ranges from "Sea level" to heights above 28,000 ft. As a practical resource it not only notes place names and boundaries, but railroads, "roads suitable for wheels", "other roads with pass", "Telegraph line", "Spring", "Well" and even "Place of archaeological interest. Halting place". This map once owned by U.S. diplomat, and early climbing enthusiast in the Himalayas, E.M. Groth. He penned his named several times across the canvas backing." (Curtis Bird, 2022)
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Source https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~340587~90108839
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Survey of India   wikidata:Q1359276
 
Survey of India
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creator QS:P170,Q1359276
 Geotemporal data
Scale 1:2,500,000
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Bounding box
N: 43°N
W: 67°E E: 105°E
S: 25°N
 Bibliographic data
Language English
Place of publication Calcutta
Publisher
Brigadier Harold John Couchman, DSO, MC, Surveyor General of India
 Archival data
Dimensions height: 96 cm (37.7 in); width: 135 cm (53.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,96U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,135U174728
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Image extraction process This image has an extracted file: Index to Countries and Provinces from the 1936 map of Highlands of Tibet and Surrounding Regions by Survey of India - (cropped).jpg.
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