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ID: 7016116
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016116
Record Type:
administrative
Juneau (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 58 18 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 58.3000
decimal degrees
Long: 134 25 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -134.4167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Gastineau Channel in SE Alaska; John Juneau and Richard Harris discovered gold nearby, stimulating a gold boom until mine closed in 1944; continued as state capital when Alaska entered the Union.
Names:
Juneau
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Douglas
(
C
,
V
)
............
in 1970 Douglas, located on an island across channel, combined with Juneau & became largest city in USA
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Alaska
(state) (
P
)
................
Juneau
(national division) (
P
)
....................
Juneau
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1880 when gold was discovered
town (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
............
since 1959
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for forestry
fish-processing center (
C
)
............
for salmon
administrative center (
C
)
............
for state & national governments
mill center (
C
)
............
for lumber
transportation center (
C
)
............
has steamer & airline connections with Vancouver & Seattle
educational center (
C
)
............
houses University of Alaska since 1972
tourist center (
C
)
............
includes nearby Glacier Bay National Park & Alaska State Museum
capital (
H
)
............
of Alaska Territory in 1900
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Alaska
.......... (state)
..................
(World, North and Central America, United States) [7006450]
Sources and Contributors:
Douglas..........
[
FDA
,
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 653
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Juneau..........
[
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
1:449
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
6:653
.................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS2011397
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
578
Subject:
.....
[
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 449; 1:449
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 653; 6:653
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS2011397
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
578
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
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