Stanford Geospatial CenterThis polygon shapefile is an index to the map series "空中寫眞要圖 三万五千分一「ビスマルク」群島 「アラウエ」-「 マーカス」岬間 -- Kūchū shashin yōzu Sanman Gosen bun no ichi "Bisumaruku" Guntō "Araue" - "Mākasu" misaki kan 1:35,000" (1943). Stanford University Libraries holds a large collection of Japanese military and imperial maps, referred to as gaihōzu, or "maps of outer lands." These maps were produced starting in the early Meiji (1868-1912) era and the end of World War II by the Land Survey Department of the General Staff Headquarters, the former Japanese Army. The Library is in the process of scanning and making available all of the maps in the collection.This layer provides an index map that can be used to locate individual scanned map sheets.Shapefilehttps://purl.stanford.edu/sb159tf3867engStanford Digital RepositoryPublicTopographic mapsIndex mapsGrids (Cartography)Military mapsMilitaryBoundariesKūchū shashin yōzu Sanman Gosen bun no ichi "Bisumaruku" Guntō "Araue" - "Mākasu" misaki kan 1:35,000, Maps Index 空中寫眞要圖 三万五千分一「ビスマルク」群島 「アラウエ」-「 マーカス」岬間DatasetsCape Merkus, New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea)Territory of New Guinea1943Stanford