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ID: 7016678
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016678
Record Type:
physical
Nicobar Islands (island group)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 8.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 093 30 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 93.5000
decimal degrees
Note:
Claimed by Great Britain 1869-1888; occupied by Japanese in WW II; islands are covered with thick forest; agricultural crops include rice, fruits, vegetables, coconuts, corn & betel nuts; inhabited by Nicobarese & Shompens peoples.
Names:
Nicobar Islands
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Nicobar
(
C
,
V
)
Nikobaren
(
C
,
O
)
Micobar Islands
(
NA
,
V
)
Nakkavār
(
NA
,
V
)
Nicobars
(
NA
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
India
(nation) (
P
)
............
Andaman and Nicobar
(union territory) (
P
)
................
Nicobar Islands
(island group) (
P
)
Place Types:
island group (
preferred
,
C
)
islands (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Micobar Islands..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Nakkavār..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Nicobar..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 691
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Nicobar Islands..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 691
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Nicobars..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Nikobaren..........
[
VP
]
....................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-122
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 691
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2106136
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-122
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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