Map of India Gains 57,036 square Miles in a Single Year

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 11

Map of India Gains 57,036 square Miles in a Single Year

BOMBAY—One of the most notable maps in the world has had 57,036 square miles of territory included in it during the last year. This map is of the sub-continent of India on the scale of one inch to the mile. It now covers 1,304,453 square miles of modern survey, leaving 580,187 square miles still to be completed. The work is being done by the ‘‘Survey of India," an organization founded in 1767, ten years after the battle of Plassey, which gave to Britain possession of Bengal, and it has been going on ever since.

The work during 1936 has not been without adventure. A party penetrated the “Inner-Sanctuary *’ of Nanda Devi, of which they made a photographic survey under very arduous conditions. A surveyor and his party were almost overwhelmed by a severe snowstorm in the upper reaches of tho Gaugotri Glacier in Tehri-Garhwal, and narrowly escaped. Surveyors accompanied the Visser Expedition to the Karokorain in 1935, which returned to India with satisfactory results shortly after the opening of the present survey year, and a sur veyor is still with Sir Aurei Stein on his archaeological expedition to Iran. It goes without saying that in portions of the area under regular survey, elephants, tigers, and panthers were numerous and caused some uneasiness among the surveyors.