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ID: 7001923
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sydney (inhabited place)  Sydney (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 33 55 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -33.9167  decimal degrees
Long: 151 10 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 151.1667  decimal degrees

Note: Founded as penal colony, was first British settlement in Australia; is now largest city in nation; is major seaport including Sydney Harbour & Botany Bay; comprises 44 municipalities & shires.

Names:
Sydney (preferred,C,V)
Sidney (C,V)
Port Jackson (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceania (continent)  ....  Oceania (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Australia (nation)  ........  Australia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of New South Wales (state)  ............  New South Wales (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Sydney (inhabited place)  ................  Sydney (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1788
city (C)
regional capital (C)
port (C)
commercial center (C)
industrial center (C)
transportation center (C)
university center (C)
episcopal see (C)
penal settlement (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Port Jackson..........  [VP]
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1989) 352
Sidney..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  Van Marle, Pittura Italiana (1932)
Sydney..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 627
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 453
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 192
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1175
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 627
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 453
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1989) 352
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 192
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Van Marle, Pittura Italiana (1932)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1175
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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