Catalogue description 'A Plan of the Island of Heligoland [now part of Germany]': two copies of a map of...

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Details of MR 1/1879
Reference: MR 1/1879
Description:

'A Plan of the Island of Heligoland [now part of Germany]': two copies of a map of Heligoland (Helgoland) proper and neighbouring Sandy Island (Düne) showing military buildings, rocks, moorings and soundings. Reference table to buildings and fortifications. Scale: 20 inches to 1 mile [1 inch to 88 yards]. Compass indicators. By Lieutenant Sebastian Dickinson, Royal Engineers, 14 November 1808.
Date: 1808
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: WO 78/378
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Dimensions: 118 cm x 192 cm
Map scale: 1:3168
Physical condition: MS, coloured
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 1647

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