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ID: 7013127
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013127
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sudbury (inhabited place)  Sudbury (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 30 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 46.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 081 01 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -81.0167  decimal degrees

Note: SE Ontario; located on Ramsey Lake; named after Sudbury, England; nickel, copper, gold, silver, platinum, cobalt, sulfur, and iron ore are mined.

Names:
Sudbury (preferred,C,V,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Canada (nation)  ........  Canada (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Ontario (province)  ............  Ontario (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Sudbury (inhabited place)  ................  Sudbury (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  grew with the discovery of copper- & nickel-bearing ores in 1883; incorporated as a town in 1893
city (C)  ............  incorporated 1930
mining center (C)
educational center (C)  ............  Laurentian University established 1960

Sources and Contributors:
Sudbury..........  [BHA, FDA, VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 350-351
.................  National Archives of Canada database (1987-)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -574311
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 190
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 350-351
..................  National Archives of Canada database (1987-)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -574311
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 190
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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