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ID: 1013702
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1013702
Record Type:
administrative
Prince Rupert (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 54 18 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 54.3000
decimal degrees
Long: 130 17 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -130.2833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located NW of Vancouver; was marshalling & supply base for Allied troops in Aleutian Islands & mid-Pacific during WW II; today is a fishing community dependent upon salmon & halibut; noted for Haida carvings in Museum of N British Columbia.
Names:
Prince Rupert
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
............
after first governor of Hudson's Bay Company, 1906
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
............
British Columbia
(province) (
P
)
................
Prince Rupert
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
............
British Columbia
(province) (
P
)
................
Kaien Island
(island) (
P
)
....................
Prince Rupert
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was incorporated in 1910
city (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Prince Rupert..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 705
..........................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-571743
..........................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
155
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 705
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-571743
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
155
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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