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Title: Preliminary map to illustrate the route of the Mount Everest Expedition, 1921 : reduced from the original map on the scale 1/253440 by Major Morshead and assistants of the Survey of India accompanying the expedition: the neighbourhood of the mountain from map II

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 1922

Publishers

  • London : Royal Geographical Society, 1922.

Summary

Relief shown by spot heights. Locations of mountain peaks are shown. Route of the expedition shown in red. Also includes mountain passes, glaciers, drainage, settlements, and boundary of Sikkim. From: Geographical Journal. Vol. 59, no. 2 (Feb. 1922), pp. 81-112, 131-137; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6874

Subjects

  • Himalaya Mountains
  • Mount Everest Expedition
  • Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)—Description and travel
  • Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)—Maps
  • Physical maps
  • Other

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (85.45, 89.333333, 29.5, 27.5)
  • Geometry: BBOX (85.45, 89.333333, 29.5, 27.5)

Provider

Princeton

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Morshead, Henry, 1882-1931. Preliminary map to illustrate the route of the Mount Everest Expedition, 1921 : reduced from the original map on the scale 1/253440 by Major Morshead and assistants of the Survey of India accompanying the expedition: the neighbourhood of the mountain from map II. London : Royal Geographical Society, 1922.. Image data. https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-pn89d934q

Format

TIFF

Languages

  • eng