Catalogue description Colonial Office: Kuria Muria Islands, Original Correspondence

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Details of CO 143
Reference: CO 143
Title: Colonial Office: Kuria Muria Islands, Original Correspondence
Description:

This series contains original correspondence relating to the Kuria Muria Islands
Date: 1857-1858
Arrangement:

The single volume in this series is arranged chronologically within the subject headings Despatches (letters of the governors), and Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations).
Related material:

For further correspondence see FO 54/16
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 1 volume(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Unpublished finding aids:

The correspondence in CO 143 is registered in the Mauritius registers in CO 356.

Administrative / biographical background:

The Kuria Muria islands were ceded to Britain by the Imam of Muscat in 1854 as a Cable station. Formerly governed from Aden, they are now part of the Sultanate of Oman.

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