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ID: 1093035
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1093035
Record Type:
administrative
East London (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 00 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -33.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 027 54 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 27.9000
decimal degrees
Note:
Served as a British supply base during the seventh Kaffir War in 1847; annexed to Cape Colony in the same year; flourished after German settlers arrived in the late 1850s; center for fishing, furniture, glass, textiles, wool & fruit canning.
Names:
East London
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Oos-Londen
(
C
,
V
)
Port Rex
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
............
Eastern Cape
(province) (
P
)
................
East London
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1847
city (
C
)
............
since 1914
port (
C
)
resort (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
East London..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 263-264
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 330
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
60
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
353
Oos-Londen..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 263
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 330
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
353
Port Rex..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 263
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
353
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 263; I, 263-264
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 330
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
60
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
353
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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