Singapore [cartographic material]
- Bib ID:
- 2028565
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Edition:
- Various eds.
- Scale:
- Scale 1:6,336 or 10 in. to 1 mile (E 103°38'--E 104°05'/N 1°28'--N 1°10')
- Description:
-
- [Great Britain] : War Office, 1944-1945
- maps : col. ; 72 x 99 cm. or smaller.
- Series:
-
- GSGS (Series) ; 4476.
- HIND ; 1073.
- Notes:
-
- Town plan of Singapore city showing administrative boundaries, transportation, water features, vegetation, built-up areas and buildings, milestones and house numbers.
- At top of map: Malaya.
- Johore grid.
- Includes sheet diagram.
- 1st ed. published in 1944, 2nd ed. published in 1945.
- Both editions issued in each of GSGS and HIND series.
- "Restricted" at top of Hind issue of edition 1 sheets.
- Second edition: "Revised from air photographs by War Office, 1945."
- Second edition: "Account has been taken of bomb damage only when damaged buildings have been replaced by new buildings"
- Second edition has key to numbered locations on verso of each sheet.
- Second edition: "Grid provisional".
- GSGS issue of first edition: "5,850/6/44 S.P.C.".
- HIND issue of first edition: "HIND 1073. Reprint of G.S.G.S. 4476, First Edition." and "Printed at the Survey of India Offices (H.L.O.). Reg. No. 1598 H.E.'44-X'44."
- GSGS issue of second edition: "3,500/8/45 S.P.C.".
- HIND issue of second edition issued in two formats: 1) as 2 sheets at standard size, printed by 65 Ind. Rep. GP. I.E. Nov. 45; and 2) in three smallers sheets printed by 110 Map Production Coy. R.E. Aug 1945: the North sheet is printed in two halves, west and east, and the South sheet issued at a reduced size by excising the northern overlap with the North sheet, and the breakwater on the eastern edge; the legend is also relocated westwards, overlapping part of Pulau Blakangmati; all three sheets have the full index on verso, but printed at a reduced size.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2950056725
- Subject:
- Singapore -- Maps
- Time Coverage:
- 1944 and 1944
- Copyright:
-
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 2015 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1945
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