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ID: 7001942
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001942
Record Type:
administrative
Newcastle (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 32 55 40 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -32.9278
decimal degrees
Long: 151 47 04 E
degrees minutes
Long: 151.7845
decimal degrees
Note:
Originally a penal settlement, now a major industrial city specializing in iron & steel, shipbuilding, chemicals, & textiles; located at mouth of Hunter River; site of University of Newcastle.
Names:
Newcastle
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
King's Town
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
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Australia
(nation) (
P
)
............
New South Wales
(state) (
P
)
................
Newcastle
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1804
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
penal settlement (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
King's Town..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
830
Newcastle..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
138
....................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
830
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1591316
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
138
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
830
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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