US Geological Survey and Aramco

Lot 92
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Lot 92 | US Geological Survey and Aramco
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U.S. Geological Survey and Aramco

Arabian Peninsula. 1958

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY and the ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY. Arabian Peninsula [in Arabic]. Washington DC: Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Finance, 1958.



First edition of the base map used in all future geological maps of the Arabian peninsula. Under the leadership of King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud (1875-1953), the majority of the Arabian peninsula was unified and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia established in 1932. One of his most pressing concerns was to ascertain what the country's natural resources were in general, and more specifically, its groundwater reserves. Consequently a partnership between the Kingdom and the United States Geological Survey was established. In 1945, the USGS together with Aramco surveyed much of western and central Arabia. Impressed, the Saudis expanded the survey and its objectives to include natural resources such as oil and gas, and added the innovative use of aerial photography and reconnaissance to speed up the process dramatically.



By 1953, the USGS, in conjunction with Aramco, the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and Sheikh Abdullah Sulaiman, then Minister of Finance of the Government of Saudi Arabia, formalised their commitment to a co-operative venture to geologically map the entirety of the Arabian peninsula. From the outset is was envisaged to create both Arabic and English versions of the cartography. The information they obtained formed the basis of all subsequent Saudi national development plans. To this day, all modern maps of the Kingdom can trace their roots back to these first publications. This map is the first topographic base map produced from this joint venture.



Large folding chromolithographic wall map, the Arabian peninsula shown with topographic relief, and with water pipelines, oases, oil fields, oil pipelines, ports and harbours, oil wells, natural gas fields, quarries and mines, key to lower left, Saudi Arabia’s northern borders delineated, title to lower-right in Arabian Sea with scale 1:2,000,000, title and all toponyms in Arabic, 1220 x 1395mm.

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