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ID: 1014154
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1014154
Record Type:
administrative
Bonavista (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 48 38 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 48.6333
decimal degrees
Long: 053 08 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -53.1333
decimal degrees
Note:
John Cabot possibly landed at Cape Bonavista 1497; province's first school established 1726; today is a fishing port for cod & salmon; site of facilities for drying, filleting & cold storage of fish; linked by road & rail to Saint John's.
Names:
Bonavista
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
............
probably named by Portuguese explorer Gaspar CĂ´rte-Real after one of the Cape Verde Islands, Boa Vista, ca. 1500
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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Canada
(nation) (
P
)
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Newfoundland and Labrador
(province) (
P
)
................
Bonavista
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
............
Newfoundland and Labrador
(province) (
P
)
................
Newfoundland
(island) (
P
)
....................
Bonavista
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
as early as 1500; is one of the oldest fishing stations on the island
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bonavista..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 354
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-561447
....................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
31
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 354
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-561447
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
31
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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