Asia and adjacent areas / compiled and drawn in the Cartographic Division of the National Geographic Society for the National Geographic magazine ; James M. Darley, chief cartographer.

Format:

Map/Atlas

Author/Creator:

National Geographic Society (U.S.). Cartographic Division.

Contributor:

Darley, James M. (James Morrison)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia--Maps.

Asia.

Genre:

Maps.

Physical Description:

1 map : color ; 49 x 64 cm

Scale 1:21,225,600. 335 miles to the inch ; two-point equidistant proj., poles at 35⁰ N.-40⁰ E. and 35⁰ N.-140⁰ E. (W 20⁰--W 170⁰/N 90⁰--S 10⁰).

paper

polychrome

Cartographic Data:

Scale 1:21,225,600. 335 miles to the inch ; two-point equidistant proj., poles at 35⁰ N.-40⁰ E. and 35⁰ N.-140⁰ E. (W 20⁰--W 170⁰/N 90⁰--S 10⁰).

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 1959.

Summary:

Color map of Asia showing railroads, roads, drainage, canals, airports, passes, ruins, water holes, oil fields/pipe lines, Great Wall of China, desert, volcanic debris, intermittent lakes, dry salt lakes, countries, and cities. Map extends west as far as Ireland; north as far as the North Pole; east as far as New Guinea; and south as far as Madagascar.

Notes:

Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Bathymetry shown by isolines, gradient tints, and soundings.

"Atlas plate 44, December 1959."

OCLC:

5949176