[Map] Aswan, Africa 1:2,000,000 Series 2201 Sheet 10 Edition 5-GSGS Army Map Service, US Army Corps of Engineers; Survey Production Centre, Royal Engineers (SPC.RE)

Colour printed paper map 70x65cm. Good, neatly folded with refold creases, light staining or tanning, and a short closed tear. Prepared by the US Army Corps of Engineers Army Map Service 1968, boundaries revised by Survey Production Centre, Royal Engineers (SPC.RE) in 1969, and published by D Survey in the same year. Centred on the Red Sea, coverage is about equally divided between UAR Egypt and Sudan, and Saudi Arabia. Features include various sizes of settlement, grades of road and track, rail, major and minor airports, mines, forts, extensive drainage and arid features, with notes about terrain in the image. The Egypt-Sudan side is bounded by the Red Sea coast from the entrance to the Gulf of Suez to Guadiloab, with the Sahara divided by the Nile into Western, Eastern, Libyan and Nubian Deserts. This edition is contemporary with imminent completion of the New Aswan High Dam, shown here including Lake Nasser with the old course of the Nile traced through it. Other points of interest include several Pharaonic locations along the Nile, Kharga Oasis, and ancient caravan routes including the Darb El Arabain, Darb El Tawil, and Darb El Harrak. The Saudi side covers the Red Sea coast from the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba to Lith, thus including both Mecca and Medina and their associated ports, extending inland as far as Hail (NE).