Hong Kong & New Territories—GSGS 3961 topographical map—from WW2 air photos 1952
£400
SKU: P-6-112550
'Hong Kong and the New Territories—GSGS 3961'
Hong Kong and the New Territories spread across this large military topographical map, whose small chart at the right reveals that much of the map's communications and main topographical details were checked by I.S.T.D. against air photographs dated 1943, during the Japanese occupation. This later printing thus preserves a record of wartime photographic checking alongside its detailed contours, settlements, roads and railway. From Victoria and Kowloon, the map extends across Lantau, Deep Bay and Mirs Bay to the boundary at Sham Chun. Sha Tin’s open estuary and the small settlements around Tai Po precede their transformation into new towns, while Plover Cove remains a coastal inlet, before its conversion into a freshwater reservoir in the 1960s. The imprints distinguish the War Office’s 1946 third edition, the Ordnance Survey reprint of 1949 and the code identifying this impression as March 1952. Its extensive rural and coastal detail captures a landscape strikingly different from the densely developed territory familiar today.
Size 73 x 101 cm | 28.5 x 40.0 inches
Date Published: Published 1936. 3rd edition 1946. Printed March 1952
Type: Vintage folding topographical map in printed colour
Author: War Office
Publication: Ingrams' Hong Kong
Condition: Fair |
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