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ID: 1050717
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1050717
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Greenock (inhabited place)  Greenock (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 55 56 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 55.9333  decimal degrees
Long: 004 45 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -4.7500  decimal degrees

Note: Located on S shore of Firth of Clyde; port facilities grew in 18th & 19th cen., with development of shipbuilding, textile & sugar industries; one of world's largest dry docks was built here in 1964; birthplace of James Watt, who invented steam power.

Names:
Greenock (preferred,C,V,English,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United Kingdom (nation)  ........  United Kingdom (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Scotland (country)  ............  Scotland (country) (P)
Hierarchy of Inverclyde (unitary authority)  ................  Inverclyde (unitary authority) (P)
Hierarchy of Greenock (inhabited place)  ....................  Greenock (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
industrial center (C)
port (C)
manufacturing center (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Greenock..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 472
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 76
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 472
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2597673
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 76
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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