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A MAP of Europe and the Middle East on a scale of 1: 11 million has been published by the Royal Geographical Society on behalf of the British Council. The map is drawn on Murdoch's third conical projection and extends from Western Europe, the British Isles and Iceland east to Rangoon and south to Abyssinia. It will fit obliquely with two adjoining sheets, North America to Britain and the Far East, which are now published in outline only but are to be completed later. Land relief is shown by contours and layer colouring in tints of brown and hill shading in lavender grey corresponding to a light thrown from the top left-hand corner of the plate. Contours are at 50, 100, 200, 500, 1,000 and subsequent 1,000 metres, which is fully as many as the scale can bear in some areas. Principal railways are shown as red lines and selected roads as red dotted lines. Political boundaries as in 1938 are marked and there are also shown oil fields, pipe lines, ancient sites, deserts, marshes and glaciers. No submarine relief is shown: water is blue. Names of countries and principal rivers and towns are in black. An edition with names in Arabic is to be published. The present sheet (No. 1), flat or folded, costs 5s., or, flat, with the outline edition of No. 2 and No. 3, which are not sold separately, 8s.
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Map of Europe and Middle East. Nature 150, 543–544 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150543e0
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