Frontiers between Arabia and Saudi Arabia

This file relates to Saudi Arabia's frontiers with its various neighbours. It contains:

• Map of 'South-Eastern Arabia' produced by the Foreign Office Research Department in 1955, and related correspondence (1-2, 4, 8)
• Memorandum on 'The Riyadh Line as Modified in 1937', and correspondence relating to the frontier with Abu Dhabi and the position of the Sufuk wells (3)
• 1933 'Treaty of Friendship and Bon Voisinage between Trans-Jordan and Saudi Arabia'; the 1942 'Agreement for Friendship and Neighbourly Relations' between Britain and Saudi Arabia; HMG's 1931 report to the League of Nations on the administration of Iraq; and correspondence relating to Britain's potential frontier discussions with Saudi Arabia (5)
• Correspondence relating to the possibility, suggested by Political Resident in the Persian Gulf B A B Burrows, of minor modifications to the northern Abu Dhabi section of the Riyadh Line (6, 9)
• British request for maps of the Trucial Coast, and the Iraq Petroleum Company's reluctance to share its maps lest they fall into the hands of its American rivals (10-12)
• Correspondence relating to reports of an Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) camp near the Muscat frontier, discovered by RAF reconnaissance and a Petroleum Development (Oman) air survey, and the question of trespassing (13-17)
• Correspondence relating to the importance of confirming the exact location of Umm Al Zamul (18)