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Description
STS085-505-078 (7 - 19 August 1997) --- This large-format photograph, taken from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Discovery with a 250mm lens, shows most of Lebanon, from the Israeli border to just south of Tripoli. The main distinction is that between the forested coastal mountain ranges which receive rainfall regularly off the Mediterranean, and the yellow-brown "rainshadow" deserts inland (east) of the mountains. Damascus, capital of Syria lies just outside the view bottom right. The biblical and classical cities of Acre (bottom), Tyre, Sidon and Beirut (top, on promontory) all lie on the coast. The Bekaa valley and the Litani River lie inland of the Lebanon Mountains east of Beirut. The agricultural area in the south of the photograph is part of Israel and borders the Golan Heights.
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Tarabein, Hamdi (Øمدى طربين )
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Date estimated.
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[Desbuissons, L.E., Migeon, J.]
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Full color. Relief shown by hachures. Vignettes of temples of Solomon and Herodotus.
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[Stieler, Adolf, Petermann, A.]
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Stanford, Edward
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Full color. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows settlements, roads, railroads, biblical and historical names, etc.
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[Mieulet, Jean-Joseph, 1830-1897, Derrien, Isidore, 1839-1904]
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Color topographic map of Galilee, Israel and Lebanon. Showing major cities, villages, rivers, creeks, forts, plains and plateau. Relief shown by contours, hachures and spot heights. Depth shown by isolines. Includes abbreviations table.
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[Schraembl, Franz Anton, D'Anville]
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[Stieler, Adolf, Haack, H.]
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[Stieler, Adolf, Habenicht, H.]
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[Black, Adam, Black, Charles, Hall, Sydney]
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Jacotin, Pierre, 1765-1827
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Composite of all 47 sheets. Georeferenced. Engraved topographic map. Relief shown by hachures. Place names in French and Arabic.
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[Harenbergh, Johannis Christoph., Schening, S. Laur.]
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[Grimm, J.L., Mahlmann, H.]
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See index map.
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[Grimm, J.L., Mahlmann, H., Zimmermann, Carl]
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This is bottom right sheet in composite.
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Cram, George Franklin
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Prime meridians Greenwich and Washington.
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Jacotin, Pierre, 1765-1827
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Engraved topographic map. Relief shown by hachures. Place names in French and Arabic.
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Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
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[Carey, Henry Charles, Lea, Isaac]
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Uncolored engraved map. Covers Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel, part of Iraq, turkey, and Iran. The map shows important cities, ports, as well as rivers, mountains, and coastal features of the region. Relief shown by pictorially. Prime meridians are London and Philadelphia.
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[Stieler, Adolf, Petermann, A.]
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[Stieler, Adolf, Raumer, K.v.]
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Wilkinson, Robert
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Includes Chrono-Genealogical Chart of the Kings of Jerusalem and Cyprus.
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W. & A.K. Johnston Limited
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Arrowsmith, Aaron
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"This exceptionally detailed map of the Holy Land not only gives information on the area's Biblical past - the naming of the 12 tribes of Israel, and the location of important sites – but also the contemporary make-up of the area with the demarcation of the Pashalics of Acre, Tripoli, Aleppo, and Damascus.The title of the map was probably taken from Maundrell's 'A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem…'. The work was first published in 1703 and would continue to be a hugely popular book well into the nineteenth century. In fact Arrowsmith quotes him: 'Jacob's Well. It is dug in a firm Rock about 3 yards in diameter and 35 in depth, 5 of which we found full of water'. Arrowsmith also draws upon the writings of M. Seetzen whose travels were published in 1809. The most famous passage tells of his journey around the 'Dead Sea', which he under-took alone and dressed as a beggar." (Lyon and Turnbull)
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Arrowsmith, Aaron
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"This exceptionally detailed map of the Holy Land not only gives information on the area's Biblical past - the naming of the 12 tribes of Israel, and the location of important sites – but also the contemporary make-up of the area with the demarcation of the Pashalics of Acre, Tripoli, Aleppo, and Damascus.The title of the map was probably taken from Maundrell's 'A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem…'. The work was first published in 1703 and would continue to be a hugely popular book well into the nineteenth century. In fact Arrowsmith quotes him: 'Jacob's Well. It is dug in a firm Rock about 3 yards in diameter and 35 in depth, 5 of which we found full of water'. Arrowsmith also draws upon the writings of M. Seetzen whose travels were published in 1809. The most famous passage tells of his journey around the 'Dead Sea', which he under-took alone and dressed as a beggar." (Lyon and Turnbull)
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Arrowsmith, Aaron
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"This exceptionally detailed map of the Holy Land not only gives information on the area's Biblical past - the naming of the 12 tribes of Israel, and the location of important sites – but also the contemporary make-up of the area with the demarcation of the Pashalics of Acre, Tripoli, Aleppo, and Damascus.The title of the map was probably taken from Maundrell's 'A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem…'. The work was first published in 1703 and would continue to be a hugely popular book well into the nineteenth century. In fact Arrowsmith quotes him: 'Jacob's Well. It is dug in a firm Rock about 3 yards in diameter and 35 in depth, 5 of which we found full of water'. Arrowsmith also draws upon the writings of M. Seetzen whose travels were published in 1809. The most famous passage tells of his journey around the 'Dead Sea', which he under-took alone and dressed as a beggar." (Lyon and Turnbull)
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Johnson, A.J.
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Full color map. With heavy outline color. Shows cities and towns, rivers and roads. Includes expalanatory key to classical and modern names. Shows a Vignette of Damascus.Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians are Greenwich and Washington D.C.
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[Sonnenschein, W. Swan, Allen, Bevan, G.P.]
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Image rescanned with directional lighting to highlight raised relief.
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[Sonnenschein, W. Swan, Allen, Bevan, G.P.]
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Raised relief.
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[Sonnenschein, W. Swan, Allen, Bevan, G.P.]
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[Bayer, Herbert, Container Corporation of America]
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Map and graphics showing principal resources, population, occupations, manufacturing, mineral production, agriculture, and land use. Includes brief history and description of countries' features. Relief depicted by hachures and hypsometric tints.
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Cram, George Franklin
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Prime meridians Washington D.C. and Greenwich. Relief shown by hachures. With printed color.
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Instituto Geographico di Agostini
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Series of small maps showing, crops, minerals, land cover, products, fishing areas, and energy resources. Flags also shown. Relief shown as combined hachures, shaded relief, and hypsometric tints; bathymetry also tinted.
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Schonberg & Co.
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Relief shown in hachures. Prime meridians are Greenwich and Washington D.C. Counties differentiated by full color.
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USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).
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[Gray, Ormando Willis, Colton, G. Woolworth]
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Prime meridians Washington D.C. and Greenwich. Relief shown by hachures.
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Johnson, A.J.
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In full color. Relief shown by hachures. Meridians Greenwich and Washington D.C.
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Polish Army Topography Service
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Double-fold map shows three areas in detail: (1) France has 1:500,000 locales of Cote d'Azur, Marseille (Marseilles), Nice, (and) Monaco, French Riviera, and Toulon; (2) Mediterranean Straits has 1:500,000 Gibraltar, Strait of Gibraltar, Dardanelles, Malta and Gozo, Strait of Messina, and Bosporus (Istanbul); and (3) Levant has varying scales including Tel-Aviv-Fayo, Beyrout (Beirut), Suez Canal, and Yerushalayim, El Quds (Jerusalem).
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