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ID: 1009227
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1009227
Record Type:
physical
South Island (island)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 00 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -43.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 171 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 171.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Larger and southernmost of two principal islands of New Zealand; separated from North Island by Cook Strait, from Steward Island to the south by Fouveaux Strait; sighted by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642.
Names:
South Island
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Middle Island
(
C
,
V
)
Te Waipounamu
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
New Zealand
(nation) (
P
)
............
South Island
(island) (
P
)
Place Types:
island (
preferred
,
C
)
............
sighted by Europeans in 1642
Sources and Contributors:
Middle Island..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1142
South Island..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
605
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 43
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1142
Te Waipounamu..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
236
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
605
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 43
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 4 February 2015
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
236
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1142
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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