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ID: 7019773
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7019773
 
Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Aleutian Islands (island group)  Aleutian Islands (island group)

Coordinates:
Lat: 56 23 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 56.3833  decimal degrees
Long: 131 19 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -131.3167  decimal degrees

Note: Chain of small islands located off Alaska's S coast; Aleuts came from Alaskan mainland to islands around 2000 BC; there was internal warfare between Aleut tribes; Aleksey Chirikov charted islands in 1741; Russians exploited islands for fur.

Names:
Aleutian Islands (preferred,C,V)
Alëuten (C,V)
Aleutianas, Islas (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Alaska (state)  ............  Alaska (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Aleutians West (national division)  ................  Aleutians West (national division) (P)
Hierarchy of Aleutian Islands (island group)  ....................  Aleutian Islands (island group) (P)

Place Types:
island group (preferred, C)
island (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Alëuten..........  [VP]
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-4
Aleutianas, Islas..........  [VP]
................................  Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-4
Aleutian Islands..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 20
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 239
.............................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS2000156; GNIS2000243
.............................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 30
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 20
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 239
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-4
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS2000156; GNIS2000243
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 30
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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