The Survey of Western Palestine
(1871 - 1878)
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The Survey of Western Palestine was conducted by among others, a young Lt. H.H. Kitchener of the Royal Engineers, later of Khartoum and World War One fame. The Survey of Western Palestine was the first accurate survey and map of the whole of the southern Levant west of the Jordan River, and gave subsequent archaeologists, botanists, geologists and geographers valuable reference material. This was perhaps the Fund's most ambitious and successful project of all.
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| Survey of Western Palestine Team: from left to right: T. Drake, Lt. C. Conder, Cpl Armstrong, and Sgt. Black. |