Shatt Collection

View of Shatt El Arab Waterway, Basra, Iraq, WW1
View of Shatt El Arab Waterway, Basra, Iraq, during the First World War. circa 1916

Shatt El Arab Waterway, Basra, Iraq, WW1
Basra, Iraq - view from Lychs Verandah, HMS Odin in the Shatt El Arab Waterway. circa 1916

Abadan, Iran - Bawarda Housing Estate and Refinery
Abadan, Iran - Bawarda Housing Estate and oil Refinery (the largest in the world at that time). On the Shatt al-Arab Waterway (the southern end of which forms the border with Iraq). Date: circa 1930s

Al-Qurnah - Iraq - Temptation Square - Garden of Eden
Al-Qurnah (Qurna) is a small village in southern Iraq northwest of Basra, within the town of Nahairat. Qurna (Arabic for corner)

Al-Kut - Iraq
Al-Kut (Kut al-Imara or Kut El Amara)) - city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River. Showing the famous Minaret of the Mosque

Al-Qurnah (Qurna) - Iraq - River craft
Al-Qurnah (Qurna) is a small village in southern Iraq northwest of Basra, within the town of Nahairat. Qurna (Arabic for corner)

WWI - Iraq - Mesopotamian Front - Basra - Government House on the Shatt al-Arab river. Date: circa 1917

District of Ashar, in Basra, Iraq on the Shatt El Arab waterway. Date: circa 1920s

Fuel Market, Basra, Iraq - WWI era
Fuel Market, Basra, Iraq - a British officer is being ferried down the Shatt al Arab waterway (which eventually feeds out into the Persian Gulf) in some style Date: circa 1917

Shatt al-Arab - Basra, Iraq - also known as the Arvand Rud (River) - the waterway leading out into the Persian Gulf. Date: circa 1910s

River Steamer - Mesopotamia - WWI
River Steamer commandeered by the IWT (Inland Water Tranport) - providing transport to British forces fighting in Mesopotamia during WWI. Shatt al-Arab waterway, Basra, Iraq Date: circa 1917

Shipping on the Shatt al-Arab - Basra, Iraq - the waterway which eventually leads out into the Persian Gulf. Date: circa 1910s

Ottoman Turkish Map of Southern Iraq
Ottoman Turkish Map of the southern province of Iraq and the territory which is now Kuwait, The area depicted focusses on Basra and the Shatt al-Arab region leading out into the Persian Gulf

Paddlesteamer on the Shatt al-Arab
A paddlesteamer on the Shatt al-Arab, Basra, Iraq Date: circa 1910s

Ordnance Depot - Basra, Iraq, WWI
The Ordnance Depot on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab Waterway (which leads out to the Persian Gulf) at Basra, Iraq - WWI Date: circa 1917

Supply and Transport Depot, Basra, Iraq - WWI era
Supply and Transport Depot on the Shatt al-Arab Waterway (which eventually feeds into the Persian Gulf) at Basra, Iraq - WWI era Date: circa 1917

Source of Tigris
The river Tigris (Shatt Dijla in Arabic) has its source in a lake in Kurdistan, whence it flows into Iraq to join the Euphrates, passing through Mosul and Baghdad

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