Admiralty Chart of the Straits of Hormuz with detail on both north and south shores of the Gulf.

The chart focuses on the Island of Kishm or modern Kish and the southern shore of Iran on its upper part while the lower section shows the eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, specifically Oman and the United Arab Emirates. The southern most part names Dibai or Dubai and Khor al Fakkan or Khor Fakkan, an exclave of the Emirate of Sharjah.

The cartouche references the sources used for this chart, going back to the first scientific survey of the Gulf by Guy and Brucks in 1822, followed by the landmark survey of Constable and Stiffe in 1857 and through several amendments, corrections, updates and additions to the year 1951.

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