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ID: 1016206
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016206
Record Type:
administrative
Whitehorse (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 60 43 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 60.7167
decimal degrees
Long: 135 03 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -135.0500
decimal degrees
Note:
Situated on the Alaska Highway; connected by rail to Skagway, Alaska & by air to major cities in N America; Yukon headquarters for Royal Canadian Mounted Police; metropolitan area was expanded in the Whitehorse River valley in 1971.
Names:
Whitehorse
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
............
Yukon Territory
(territory) (
P
)
................
Whitehorse
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a staging center during the Klondike Gold Rush (1897-1898)
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1950
capital (
C
)
............
of Yukon Territory since 1952
transportation center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Whitehorse..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 637
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-575893
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 637
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-575893
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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