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ID: 1010229
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1010229
Record Type:
physical
Queen Elizabeth Islands (island group)
Coordinates:
Lat: 78 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 78.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 090 00 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -90.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Long occupied by Inuit; William Baffin charted the islands while sailing shores of Baffin Bay in 1616; again documented by John Ross in 1818; islands are uninhabited except for weather & research stations.
Names:
Queen Elizabeth Islands
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
............
in honor of Queen Elizabeth II 1953
Queen Elizabeth Islands
()
Îles de la Reine-Élisabeth
(
C
,
U
,
O
,
French-P
)
Îsles de la Reine-Élisabeth
(
C
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nunavut
(territory) (
P
)
................
Queen Elizabeth Islands
(island group) (
P
)
Place Types:
island group (
preferred
,
C
)
islands (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Îles de la Reine-Élisabeth..........
[
VP
]
...............................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-571864
Îsles de la Reine-Élisabeth..........
[
VP
]
...............................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-571864
Queen Elizabeth Islands..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.........................................
Canadian Encyclopedia (1985)
III, 1532-1533
.........................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-571864
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canadian Encyclopedia (1985)
III, 1532-1533
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-571864
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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