Maps of Aden

Whilst it is only some forty years since the British left Aden it seems that many people do not have any real knowledge of where Aden is situated.

I have generated this map to show the location of Aden and the surrounding countries as they were in the early sixties. Today Aden is part of the Yemen.

The Middle East.

Map of Aden showing locations of Tawahi, Crater, Ma'alla and Khormaksar.

With acknowledgements and thanks to Mick Allen for permission to reproduce this map.

Bandar Tawahi with Little Aden in the south west corner and Aden in the south east corner. The new federal Capial of Al-Ittihad is located on the road mid-way between the two. The rectangular black 'block' in the north east sector is the town of Sheikh Othman. The hatched areas to the south of Sheikh Othman and to the north of Little Aden are salt works. Photographs of these salt works appear on the Khormaksar page.

With acknowledgements to Brian Redfern who 'rescued' this map from the office of Brant & O'Dell (architects and consulting engineers) in the P&O Building, Tawahi.

Brian worked in Aden from September 1961 until November 1964. The map was used by some of his colleagues who went gliding from the Bir Fadhl airport near to Sheikh Othman. The original map indicated the permitted airspace the gliders could use. I believe this was the same airport where I flew my model aircraft.

Map of Little Aden.

With acknowledgements to Brian Redfern.

The complete map used by the gliding club members is presented here in PDF format courtesy of Brian Redfern. It can be opened using the following link by viewers with Adobe Acrobat Reader. This enables it to be seen in greater detail using the zoom and scroll features incorporated in this programme. The pencilled lines with arrow heads indicate the permitted flight paths of the gliders.

Map of Aden in PDF format

This little map was printed in the leaflet titled 'Focus on Aden', produced by the Public Relations and Information Department, August 1959. Illustrations by B Doe, A.R.I.B.A. Printed at the Government Press, Aden, to whom full acknowledgements are made.

With my thanks to Ann Swallow for providing me with this copy.