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ID: 7001900
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001900
Record Type:
administrative
Alice Springs (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 23 41 51 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -23.6975
decimal degrees
Long: 133 53 01 E
degrees minutes
Long: 133.8836
decimal degrees
Note:
Close to geographical center of continent; agricultural & mining center; winter resort; administrative & supply center for Outback settlements; railway terminus; events include Henley-on-Todd Regatta, mock yacht race on dry Todd River bed.
Names:
Alice Springs
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Stuart
(
H
,
V
)
............
1860-ca. 1931
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Australia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Northern Territory
(territory) (
P
)
................
Alice Springs
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled 1860 as Stuart
town (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
resort center (
C
)
regional capital (
H
)
............
of Central Australian Territory (under name Stuart), 1927-1931
Sources and Contributors:
Alice Springs..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
16
..........................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..........................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
10
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
32
Stuart..........
[
BHA
,
VP
]
.................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
16
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1555489
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
10
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
32
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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