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ID: 7001927
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001927
Record Type:
administrative
Bendigo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 45 29 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -36.7582
decimal degrees
Long: 144 16 49 E
degrees minutes
Long: 144.2802
decimal degrees
Note:
Was founded as a sheep run in 1840; expanded rapidly after alluvial gold was discovered nearby in 1851; modern industries include iron foundries, potteries & livestock markets.
Names:
Bendigo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named in 1891 to honor a local prizefighter, who compared himself to English fighter Bendigo
Sandhurst
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Australia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Victoria
(state) (
P
)
................
Bendigo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1840
city (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bendigo..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 91
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
25
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
135
Sandhurst..........
[
VP
]
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
135
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 91
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1558533
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
25
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
135
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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