Artist / Author / Cartographer:

Geographical Section, General Staff

Title:

Hong Kong and Canton GSGS 3825

Date:

1938

Medium:

heliograph

Size:

58 x 74 cm

Description:

Hong Kong & Canton. China Scale 1:250,000.

Geographical Section. General Staff, No. 3825. Published at the War Office, 1927. 2nd edition 1934. Names revised 1938. Air information to May, 1934.

Compiled and drawn at W.O. 1927, partially redrawn and heliographed at O.S. 1933, and printed at W.O. 1938.

 

The Northern Boundary of Hong Kong and the New Territories, where not shewn. follows the high water mark of Deep Bay and Mirs Bay.

 

This map belonged to who used it to write a book about his escape from a Prisoner of War camp at Lai Chi Kok in 1944. This is a detailed map of the Pearl River Delta just before the out beak of World War 2.

 

This is a scarce map of the Greater Bay Area

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