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ID: 7014345
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014345
 
Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Roanoke Island (island)  Roanoke Island (island)

Coordinates:
Lat: 35 52 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 35.8667  decimal degrees
Long: 075 39 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -75.6500  decimal degrees

Note: Located near S entrance to Albermarle Sound; noted as site of Fort Raleigh, the ill-fated first English settlement in America.

Names:
Roanoke Island (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of North Carolina (state)  ............  North Carolina (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Dare (county)  ................  Dare (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Roanoke Island (island)  ....................  Roanoke Island (island) (P)

Place Types:
island (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Roanoke Island..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 782
.............................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XXIX, 345
.............................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37025118
.............................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.............................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1022
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 782
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XXIX, 345
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37025118
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1022
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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